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Salmon Cheese

A custard-like dish made with canned salmon, eggs, crushed crackers, milk, butter, and salt, baked in a double boiler and chilled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Salmon Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat a double boiler.

  2. In a bowl, combine the salmon, eggs, crushed soda crackers, milk, and butter.

  3. Season with coarse sea salt to taste.

Cook and set

  1. Pour the mixture into the double boiler.

  2. Cook for 2 hours.

  3. Once cooked, pour into a mold and refrigerate.

Serve

  1. Serve cold, sliced.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Salmon + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,577 recipes

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 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

Eggs
Bind the mixture and set into a firm, sliceable texture as they cook.
Soda crackers
Absorb liquid and add body, helping the loaf hold together when sliced.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the custard-like mixture.
Salmon
Provides the main flesh and flavor of the loaf.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother, tender texture.

The step that matters

Cook for 2 hours in the double boiler. Gentle, indirect heat lets the eggs set evenly without curdling or becoming rubbery. Letting the mixture cool in the mold before slicing helps it hold its shape.

“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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