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Salmon Loaf

A steamed salmon loaf made with bread crumbs, eggs, butter, milk, and corn starch.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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. Pour off most of the liquid from the salmon.

  2. In a bowl, combine the salmon, bread crumbs, beaten eggs, and butter.

  3. Pour the mixture into a mold and steam for 2 hours.

Make the dressing

  1. For the dressing, boil the milk and corn starch for 5 minutes.

  2. Remove from heat and stir in the beaten egg immediately to prevent curdling.

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. 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. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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 crumbs together and set firmly when steamed.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the loaf a softer, lighter body.
Salmon
Provides the main flesh and flavor of the loaf.
Corn starch
Thickens the milk into a smooth, pourable dressing.
Milk
Forms the base of the dressing and carries its flavor.

The step that matters

Stirring the beaten egg into the hot milk. Adding egg to very hot liquid can scramble it. Removing the pan from heat first and stirring quickly spreads the egg evenly and keeps the dressing smooth.

“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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