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Kippered Salmon

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Why it works: Beef and mutton are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,373 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Kippered Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare kippered salmon by cleaning and cooking it according to your preference.

  2. Fry the liver and bacon until cooked through.

  3. Fry the whiting until golden brown.

  4. Cook the corned beef until heated through.

  5. Boil rice as you would for curry.

  6. Serve rice separately with the soup.

  7. Prepare shrimp or anchovy sauce as a condiment.

  8. Bake Vienna bread according to your recipe.

  9. Roast the shoulder of mutton until tender.

  10. Boil onions until soft.

  11. Boil potatoes until tender.

  12. Serve brown and white bread with butter.

  13. Prepare hayrick puddings according to your recipe.

  14. Serve cheese as a side.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Beef + muttontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Rice + shrimptop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,055 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  4. Bread + muttontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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