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Escalloped Salmon

A baked salmon dish with butter, lemon, bread crumbs, and eggs, served with white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Escalloped Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove skin and bones from the can of salmon and chop it finely.

  2. Add salt, pepper, butter, lemon juice or vinegar, bread crumbs, and beaten eggs to the salmon and mix well.

  3. Transfer to a buttered baking dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the baking dish in a pan of boiling water.

  2. Bake for 20 minutes.

  3. Turn out onto a heated platter.

  4. Pour a rich white sauce over it.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the salmon and bread crumbs together and set into a firm, sliceable custard as they cook.
Soft bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and add body, keeping the mixture tender rather than dense.
Salmon
Provides the main flesh and flavour of the dish.
Lemon juice or vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the rich salmon flavour.

The step that matters

Baking in a water bath. Setting the dish in boiling water surrounds it with gentle, even heat, so the egg mixture cooks through without curdling or drying out at the edges.

“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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