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Boiled Salmon Trout

Boiled salmon trout served with fennel garnish and anchovy sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and anchovy work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 535 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Boiled Salmon Trout

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil water in a pot and add the coarse sea salt.

  2. Add the salmon trout to the boiling water and cook until done.

  3. Drain the fish well and serve on a fish napkin.

  4. Garnish with fennel and serve with anchovy sauce or the sauce made for fish.

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 + anchovytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together535 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Salmon + fenneltop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together253 recipes

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

  3. Fennel + anchovytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon trout
Is the main protein, cooked through in the simmering salted water to become flaky and tender.

The step that matters

Add the salmon trout to the boiling water and cook until done.. Fish protein toughens and dries quickly when overcooked, so the fish should be checked early and removed once it just turns opaque and flakes easily.

Swap the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, anchovy):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, anchovy. 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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