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Salmon Pudding

A steamed salmon pudding made with salmon, eggs, milk, butter, breadcrumbs, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove all skin and bones from the salmon and mash it finely with a potato masher.

  2. Melt the butter in the hot milk, then add the salt, pepper, and bread crumbs.

  3. Mix this with the mashed salmon and stir in the beaten eggs.

Steam and serve

  1. Steam the mixture in a buttered mold for 1 hour.

  2. Serve with a cream sauce, adding a little chopped parsley and red pepper.

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

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. 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

Salmon
Forms the body of the pudding and provides its main flavor.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set during steaming to hold it together.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the hot milk and add body, giving the pudding a soft texture.
Milk
Softens the crumbs and keeps the mixture moist during steaming.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the milk mixture.

The step that matters

Stirring in the beaten eggs. Eggs set when heated, so they must be mixed in evenly to bind the pudding without leaving pockets of uncooked egg or uneven firmness.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, egg, milk, butter, bread):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, milk, butter, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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