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To Stew Salmon with Green Peas

A salmon stew cooked with green peas, onion, lemon, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

To Stew Salmon with Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and drain the green peas.

  2. In a fish stewpan, fry the chopped onion in oil until golden.

Make the stew

  1. Add salt, pepper, sugar, and water.

  2. Let the mixture cook well.

  3. When half cooked, add the slices of salmon.

  4. In a bowl, mix flour with lemon juice, mint, and parsley.

  5. Pour the mixture into the stewpan.

Serve

  1. Serve the salmon in the center of a dish, surrounded by peas.

  2. Drizzle some juice over the salmon.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Peas + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peas
Provide the main vegetable body and sweet, fresh flavour of the stew.
Flour
Thickens the cooking liquid into a light sauce around the salmon.
Onion
Builds a sweet, savoury base as it browns gently in oil.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the stew and balances the sweetness of the peas.

The step that matters

Thickening with flour and lemon juice. Flour mixed with lemon juice must be stirred smoothly into the liquid before it goes in, or it can clump. Once added, the starch thickens the stew as it heats, so the mixture should be cooked long enough for the flour to lose its raw taste.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, pepper, sugar, flour, lemon, mint, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, pepper, sugar, flour, lemon, mint, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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