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Salmon Loaf

A baked loaf made from flaked salmon, bread crumbs, butter, milk, egg, salt, pepper, and optional onion.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Salmon Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the loaf

  1. Remove bones and flake the salmon.

  2. Add bread crumbs, butter, salt, pepper, and egg.

  3. Mix well and add milk slowly.

  4. Mold into a loaf.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a medium oven for one-half hour.

  2. Add a little chopped onion if desired.

  3. If steamed instead of baked, it makes a more moist loaf but is not so easy to keep in shape for serving.

  4. Serve hot on a bed of lettuce or parsley.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

790Calories
28 gProtein
26 gFat
109 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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. See the original page.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Soft stale bread
Bread crumbs absorb liquid and give the loaf structure that holds the fish together.
Egg
Egg binds the flaked salmon and crumbs, setting as it cooks to hold the loaf's shape.
Milk
Milk adds moisture, keeping the loaf tender as the bread swells and the egg sets.
Butter
Butter adds fat, enriching the flavour and softening the texture of the loaf.

The step that matters

Add the milk slowly while mixing. Adding milk gradually lets the bread crumbs absorb it evenly, so the mixture stays moist but still firm enough to shape. A mixture that is too wet slumps and falls apart during baking.

“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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