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To Dress Salted Salmon

A method of preparing salted salmon by soaking in milk and water, then gently heating, skimming, and resting before serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,577 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

To Dress Salted Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Soak and poach

  1. Soak the salted salmon in a mixture of milk and water.

  2. Place the salmon in a pot with fresh water and heat it gently, avoiding boiling.

  3. Skim the surface well and remove from heat.

  4. Cover the salmon with a cloth for 5 minutes in the water.

Serve

  1. Drain and serve as a salad or in another preferred way.

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 + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,577 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salted salmon
Provides the main protein and savory flavor, with its salt level reduced by soaking.
Milk
Helps mellow the saltiness of the salmon during soaking.

The step that matters

Heating gently without boiling. Keeping the water just below a boil cooks the salmon gently so its proteins set into tender flakes rather than tightening and turning dry and 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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