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Salmon Salad

A salad of canned salmon, crackers, pickles, eggs, butter, salt, pepper, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Salmon Salad

Why it works: Pepper and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,814 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Salmon Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the salmon, finely rolled crackers, chopped pickles, and chopped egg whites.

  2. In a separate bowl, mix the egg yolks with butter until smooth. Add the yolk mixture to the salmon mixture.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, and vinegar to achieve desired consistency. Mix well and serve.

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. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

  2. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main body and flaked texture of the salad.
Hard boiled eggs
Yolks add richness and a smooth, creamy texture; whites add body.
Crackers
Absorb moisture and help bind the salad together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, smoothing the egg yolks into the mixture.
Pickles
Add acidity and crunch that cut through the richness.

The step that matters

Season with vinegar to achieve desired consistency. Vinegar adds acidity that brightens the flavor, but too much makes the salad wet and sharp. Add it gradually and taste as you go, since the salt and pepper also need balancing.

“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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