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Piece of Salmon Roasted

Roasted salmon stuffed with a filling, coated in egg and breadcrumbs, baked with butter and served with a Spanish sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Piece of Salmon Roasted

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare a piece of salmon from the shoulder to the center.

  2. Stuff the salmon with a good stuffing.

Coat and roast

  1. Beat the egg and coat the salmon with it, then cover with bread crumbs.

  2. Tie the salmon onto a spit.

  3. Baste with fresh butter to keep it moist.

  4. Roast until well done and golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve on a dish with a strong sauce à l'espagnole.

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. Bread + buttertop 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. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the dish and provides the flesh that cooks through during roasting.
Egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the salmon so the coating stays in place while roasting.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust that browns during roasting.
Fresh butter
Adds moisture and richness to the surface while the salmon roasts.

The step that matters

Roast until well done and golden brown. Salmon dries out quickly when overcooked, so the cook must judge doneness carefully while still achieving a golden crust. Basting with butter helps keep the flesh moist during the long roast.

“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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