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Breaded salmon cutlets fried and served with lemon or pickle sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut salmon into half‑inch thick cutlets without bone.

  2. Rub cutlets with beaten egg and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  3. Dip in chopped herbs and bread crumbs.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry in oil like a veal cutlet.

  2. Serve with Indian pickle sauce or lemon.

  3. For broiling, season cutlets, wrap in paper, and broil until hot.

  4. Serve with lemon.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Salmon + breadtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together941 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 cutlets
Provides the main body and flaky texture of the dish.
Egg
Binds the coating so the bread crumbs stick to the salmon.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.
Oil
Conducts heat to fry the coated cutlets and encourages browning.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the rich flavour of the salmon.

The step that matters

Frying the breaded cutlets. If the oil is not hot enough, the crumb absorbs fat and turns greasy instead of browning and crisping. Cooking over steady heat sets the coating and keeps the fish moist inside.

“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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