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Salmon, Tinned Hot

A dish of tinned salmon heated in water and topped with white sauce and cucumber.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and cucumber work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 513 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Salmon, Tinned Hot

Ingredients

Directions

Heat the salmon

  1. Remove the salmon from the tin and place it in a fireproof dish.

  2. Stand the dish in a frying pan filled with hot water.

  3. Keep the lid on the dish to retain the salmon's flavor.

Finish and serve

  1. Once the salmon is heated through, pour over some good white sauce.

  2. When serving, add thinly sliced cucumber on top.

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. Salmon + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

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

  2. Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + cucumbertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,174 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the dish, and gentle heating keeps its flesh tender.
White sauce
Adds moisture and richness that coat the salmon and soften its flavor.

The step that matters

Heat the salmon gently in the hot water bath. Salmon proteins tighten and dry out when heated too fiercely. Gentle, indirect heat from the water bath, with the lid on to trap moisture, keeps the flesh tender and moist.

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Horseradishfits about as well
  2. Cucumberthe original
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Welsh onionfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, 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.

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