Skip to main content
Main

Salmon Mayonnaise

A chilled salmon salad dressed with mayonnaise, lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, gherkins, capers, anchovies, hard‑boiled eggs, and optional garnishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Lettuce and endive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Salmon Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Remove the skin and bones from the cold boiled salmon and cut it into serving pieces.

Assemble and decorate

  1. Mask the salmon completely with thick Mayonnaise sauce.

  2. If desired, mix a little endive with the lettuce for added flavor and appearance.

  3. Decorate the surface of the Mayonnaise sauce with tarragon, chervil, or thin slices of truffle.

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.

  1. Lettuce + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Lettuce + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Beetroot + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Capers + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Beetroot + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together231 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold boiled salmon
Forms the main body of the dish and supplies its flaky texture.
Mayonnaise sauce
Coats the salmon, adding richness, moisture and a smooth finish.
Lettuce
Provides a crisp, cool base that contrasts with the rich salmon.

Swap the endive

The recipe marks endive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, capers, egg, sauce):

  1. Endivethe original
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Horseradishfits about as well
  4. Shallotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, capers, egg, sauce. 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.

More salmon salad recipes

Dressing 4Jellied 3 See all 153 →

You might also like

Salmon CroquettesSalmon Croquettes129 recipesCanned SalmonCanned Salmon14 recipesSmoked SalmonSmoked Salmon14 recipesCreamy Lettuce SoupCreamy Lettuce Soup8 recipes