Name: Lobster and Salmon Pie
Ingredients: 1 lobster; salmon; butter

Why it works: Lobster and salmon work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 313 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Lobster and Salmon Pie

Ingredients

1 lobster
salmon
butter

Directions

Prepare the lobster

Boil the lobster and remove all the flesh.
Chop the lobster flesh small.
Bruise the lobster body.

Assemble and bake

Mix the bruised lobster body with butter.
Pour the mixture over the salmon.
Cover with a lid.
Bake until well done.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Lobster + salmontop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together313 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,481 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Lobster + buttertop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,609 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Lobster: Provides the main sweet, rich seafood flavor and the bulk of the filling.
Salmon: Forms the base of the pie and adds a firm, flaky, meaty texture.
Butter: Adds richness and moisture, carrying flavor through the lobster mixture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.