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Salmon Salad

A salad of flaked canned salmon mixed with celery and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and garnished with lettuce and red jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Salmon Salad

Why it works: Celery and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,033 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Salmon Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove skin, bones, and oil from the salmon.

  2. Flake the fish apart and combine it with celery and mayonnaise dressing, tossing lightly.

  3. Season with coarse sea salt to taste.

  4. Reserve a little mayonnaise to pour over the top.

Serve

  1. Arrange in a salad dish and garnish with curled lettuce and drops of red jelly, or serve on fresh, crisp lettuce leaves.

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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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. Celery + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Salmon + lettucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together487 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Salmon + celerytop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together658 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Red salmon
Provides the main flaked protein and body of the salad.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness, binding the fish and celery together.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, mild crunch to the salad.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lettuce. 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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