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Saumon En Timbales

A baked salmon dish served in molds, mixed with eggs, white sauce, lemon, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Saumon En Timbales

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Remove the gills from the salmon and flake it.

  2. Mash the yolks of the hard-boiled eggs and chop the whites.

  3. Combine the salmon with the chopped whites, salt, white pepper, lemon juice, and cayenne.

  4. Mix in the beaten yolks, then fold in the beaten egg whites.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into small molds or timbales.

  2. Place the molds in a baking dish with a little boiling water and bake for about 25 minutes.

Serve

  1. Invert onto a warm plate, pour over white sauce, and sprinkle with chopped parsley.

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 + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. White pepper + parsleytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Lemon + white peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,658 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,918 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
Forms the main body and flavor of the timbale.
Beaten eggs
Set when heated, binding the mixture into a firm, sliceable shape.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add body and a firmer, denser texture to the mixture.
White sauce
Adds moisture and richness to the molded timbale when served.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich salmon and egg flavors.

The step that matters

Bake the molds in a water bath. Baking the molds in a dish with boiling water surrounds them with gentle, even heat. Egg proteins set smoothly this way, while overheating can make the timbales curdle, crack, or turn rubbery.

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, sauce, lemon, parsley. 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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