Name: Salmon with Caper Sauce
Ingredients: salmon; caper sauce; tomato sauce

Why it works: Sauce and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,469 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Salmon with Caper Sauce

Ingredients

salmon
caper sauce
tomato sauce

Directions

Place the salmon in a dish.
Pour caper sauce over the salmon.
Serve immediately.
For a variation, use tomato sauce instead of caper sauce.

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.

Sauce + tomatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Salmon + tomatotop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,439 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,765 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).