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Ralston Escalloped Salmon

A baked salmon dish with a creamy Ralston Health Food and egg mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and salmon 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 ↓

Ralston Escalloped Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the Ralston mixture

  1. Boil the water in a pot.

  2. Stir in the Ralston Health Food and boil for 10 minutes.

Add the eggs

  1. Add the butter, egg yolks, cayenne pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  2. Carefully fold in the egg whites.

Assemble and bake

  1. In a greased baking dish, layer the Ralston mixture and salmon.

  2. Bake for 15 minutes at 350°F (175°C).

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. Butter + salmontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

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

  2. Egg + salmontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Salmon + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Ralston health food
Cooks into a thick, starchy base that gives the dish body and holds the layers together.
Eggs
Set when baked, binding the mixture into a firm, sliceable custard-like texture.
Butter
Adds fat for richer flavour and a softer, moister texture.
Salmon
Provides the main protein and savoury flavour throughout the dish.

The step that matters

Carefully fold in the egg whites. Egg whites hold air when beaten, and gentle folding keeps that air in the mixture. Stirring vigorously deflates them, which leaves the baked dish denser and less light.

“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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