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Galantine of Salmon

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and oyster work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 672 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Galantine of Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the salmon thoroughly and open it at the stomach.

  2. Bone the salmon as perfectly as possible.

  3. Insert fillets of preserved tunny fish, anchovies, and pickled gherkins on the inner side.

  4. Stuff the salmon with the boned meat of other fish, adding pickled prawns, oysters, and lobsters, well seasoned.

  5. Restore the salmon to its original form and fasten it securely.

  6. Tie it tightly in a cloth and boil in a mixture of vinegar and water until cooked.

  7. Let it cool in the cooking liquid, then remove the cloth.

  8. Glaze the fish and decorate with bits of jelly and sippets of toast.

  9. Serve cold.

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. Salmon + oystertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together672 recipes

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

  2. Fish + oystertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Salmon + fishtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Fish + meattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together479 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Oyster + lobstertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together255 recipes

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

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