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Entree of Salmon

Salmon pieces seasoned with salt and pepper, baked in sweet oil, served with poached eggs and anchovy sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Anchovy and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,057 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Entree of Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make white paper cases and place a little sweet oil at the bottom of each.

  2. Season the salmon pieces with coarse sea salt and black pepper, then place them in the cases.

Cook and serve

  1. Set the cases over a fire on a baking plate in a covered stewpan, with heat from both top and bottom.

  2. Broil the salmon until cooked through.

  3. Serve topped with poached eggs and anchovy sauce on the side.

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. Anchovy + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Salmon + anchovytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together535 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + anchovytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,330 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pepper + anchovytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh salmon
Forms the main body of the dish and cooks to a flaky, tender texture.
Eggs
Poached eggs add richness and a soft, creamy yolk to the finished plate.
Sweet oil
Adds moisture and fat so the salmon does not stick to the paper case.

The step that matters

Broil the salmon until cooked through. Salmon dries out quickly under strong heat, and overcooking turns its texture firm and dry. Watch closely and stop once the flesh just turns opaque and flakes easily.

“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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