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Salmon Shape

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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper 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 ↓

Salmon Shape

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mince the salmon and drain the liquid for the sauce.

  2. Mix the melted butter into the salmon until well combined.

  3. Stir in the bread crumbs, seasoning, and beaten eggs.

  4. Transfer the mixture to a well-buttered pudding dish.

  5. For the sauce, heat the milk to a boil and thicken with cornstarch.

  6. Stir in the salmon liquid, butter, and beaten egg into the thickened milk.

  7. Remove from heat, season, and let stand for 5 minutes.

  8. Add lemon juice and pour the sauce over the salmon mixture.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, egg, butter, bread, milk, lemon, pepper):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, butter, bread, milk, lemon, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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