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Mayonnaise De Saumon

A chilled salmon salad dressed with mayonnaise and French dressing, served with lettuce, eggs, pickled beets, and olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,356 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mayonnaise De Saumon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Boil the salmon steaks as directed in the recipe for Boiled Salmon.

  2. Flake the fish and mix it with French Dressing.

Assemble and serve

  1. Heap the mixture in a salad bowl and refrigerate.

  2. When ready to serve, cover with Mayonnaise or Mustard Dressing.

  3. Garnish with crisp lettuce leaves, hard-boiled eggs, pickled beets, and olives to taste.

  4. 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. Mustard + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,356 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Salmon + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,942 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon steaks
Provides the flaked fish that forms the body of the salad.
French dressing
Moistens the flaked fish and adds acidity and seasoning.
Mayonnaise or mustard dressing
Adds richness and fat, coating the salad for a creamy texture.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add firm texture and mild richness as a garnish.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lettuce, egg, olive. 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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