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Salmon Salad

A salad of pink salmon, boiled potatoes, celery, pickles, and mayonnaise dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Salmon Salad

Why it works: Celery and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,047 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Salmon Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the ingredients

  1. Drain the salmon, then remove the bones and skin.

  2. Dice the potatoes and add them to the salmon.

  3. Slice the pickles very thin and add them.

  4. Chop the celery as fine as possible and mix it with the mayonnaise.

Assemble and serve

  1. Combine all ingredients and serve on a lettuce leaf.

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. Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

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

  2. Pink salmon + celerytop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Pink salmon + potatotop 51% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1 recipe

    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

Pink salmon
Provides the main protein and a flaky body for the salad.
Potatoes
Add bulk and a soft, starchy texture that holds the salad together.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness and binds the other ingredients together.
Celery
Adds a crisp, fresh crunch that contrasts with the soft salmon and potatoes.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pink salmon, celery. 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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