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Salmon Steak

A grilled salmon steak seasoned with salt, pepper, and powdered crackers, finished with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and butter 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 ↓

Salmon Steak

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Dry the salmon steak well.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Sift powdered cracker over the salmon.

Grill

  1. Grease a gridiron with butter or lard and place it over hot coals.

  2. Cook the salmon until the side facing the fire is brown.

  3. Carefully turn the salmon using a spatula and hold it to prevent breaking.

  4. Cook until both sides are light brown.

Serve

  1. Transfer to a hot dish, season again with salt and pepper.

  2. Pour melted butter over the salmon and cover before serving.

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. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  3. 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

Salmon steak
Forms the main protein that cooks through and browns on the grill.
Powdered cracker
Sifted on the fish to add a light crust that helps browning and holds moisture.
Melted butter
Poured over the cooked fish to add richness and moisture for serving.

The step that matters

Carefully turn the salmon using a spatula. Salmon steak is delicate and can fall apart when flipped. Holding it firmly with a spatula and turning it once the first side has set and browned helps keep the steak intact.

“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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