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Salmon in a Mold

A baked salmon custard made with salmon, eggs, butter, breadcrumbs, pepper, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 in a Mold

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Chop the salmon finely and rub it in a bowl with the back of a silver spoon.

  2. Add the melted butter until it forms a smooth paste.

Make the pudding

  1. In a separate bowl, mix the bread crumbs with the beaten eggs and season with pepper and salt.

  2. Combine the salmon mixture with the egg and bread crumb mixture.

  3. Pour the mixture into a buttered pudding mold.

  4. Boil or steam for 1 hour.

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.

Explore the science

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

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (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 mixture and help it set firm when cooked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the pudding a light, tender body.
Melted butter
Adds richness and helps the salmon form a smooth, spreadable paste.
Salmon
Provides the main flavour and the bulk of the pudding.

The step that matters

Boil or steam for 1 hour. Cooking gently in a covered mold or steamer heats the egg mixture evenly, so it sets through without becoming rubbery or curdled at the edges. Boiling hard can make the texture tough.

“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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