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Salmon Baked Over Mashed Potatoes

A baked salmon fillet served over mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and potato work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 952 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Salmon Baked Over Mashed Potatoes

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. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Peel and halve the potatoes, then place them in a baking dish.

  3. Season the potatoes with coarse sea salt.

Bake and serve

  1. Place a wire stand over the potatoes and lay the salmon on top.

  2. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the salmon is cooked through.

  3. Serve the salmon over the mashed potatoes.

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 + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together952 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

Salmon
Forms the main protein, turning firm and flaky as it cooks through.
Potatoes
Provide starch and bulk, softening as they bake so they can be mashed.

The step that matters

Bake until the salmon is just cooked through. Salmon is lean and its proteins tighten and squeeze out moisture as they heat. Overbaking makes the flesh dry and crumbly, so check it near the end of the 25-30 minute window.

“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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