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Ralston Escalloped Salmon

A baked salmon dish with a creamy Ralston Health Food and egg mixture, seasoned with cayenne pepper and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and salmon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,481 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Ralston Escalloped Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the base

  1. Bring the water to a boil in a pot.

  2. Stir in the Ralston Health Food and boil for 10 minutes.

  3. Add the butter, egg yolks, cayenne pepper, and salt. Mix well.

  4. Gently fold in the egg whites.

Assemble and bake

  1. In a greased baking dish, layer the Ralston mixture and salmon.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 15 minutes.

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. Butter + salmontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

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

  2. Egg + salmontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Salmon + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Ralston health food
Thickens the liquid into a cooked cereal base that holds the salmon together.
Eggs
Enrich the mixture and set during baking, giving the dish a firm, sliceable texture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, softening the flavor and mouthfeel of the base.
Salmon
Supplies the main protein and flavor, set into the custard-like base as it bakes.

The step that matters

Gently fold in the egg whites. Egg whites hold air when beaten, and folding them gently keeps that air in the mixture. Stirring vigorously would deflate them, leaving a denser, less risen result.

“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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