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Kippered Salmon, Broiled

Broiled kippered salmon served hot on toast croutons.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Kippered Salmon, Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the salmon

  1. Cut the kippered salmon into cutlets.

  2. Sauté the cutlets in butter for 3 to 4 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve very hot on a crouton of toast the same size.

  2. Enjoy at breakfast or supper.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Kippered salmon
Main ingredient, supplying the smoky, salty flavour and the flaky texture of the dish.
Butter
Fat for sautéing, adding richness and helping the cutlets brown lightly.
Toast
Base the cutlets sit on, adding a crisp, dry contrast to the moist fish.

The step that matters

Sautéing the cutlets in butter. Kippered salmon is already cooked, so it only needs heating through. Cooking it too long dries the flesh and makes it tough, while enough heat browns the surface and warms the fish evenly.

“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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