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Directions for Cooking Salt Salmon

A method for preparing a piece of salt salmon by soaking, drying, and cooking it by broiling, frying, or boiling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Directions for Cooking Salt Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the salmon in a pan of fresh water overnight to saturate it.

  2. Allow the water to drip from the faucet onto the salmon for 12 hours, keeping the pan in the sink.

  3. Dry the salmon with a towel.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the salmon on a grill over high heat.

  2. Fry the salmon like other salt fish.

  3. Boil the salmon and serve like codfish.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Salt salmon
Salt cures and seasons the fish, so it needs soaking to reduce its saltiness before cooking.
Fresh water
Soaking draws excess salt out of the fish through osmosis, making it milder and more tender.

The step that matters

Soak the salmon overnight. Salt draws out of the fish into fresh water over time. Soaking too briefly leaves the salmon too salty, while changing the water and draining well keeps the flesh moist and seasoned evenly.

“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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