Name: Salmon
Ingredients: whole salmon; coarse sea salt; water

Salmon

Ingredients

whole salmon
coarse sea salt
water

Directions

Rub coarse sea salt inside and outside the cleaned salmon.
Let the salmon sit for some time to extract excess moisture.
Wash the salmon thoroughly with pure spring water.
Dry the salmon with a clean cloth.
If the salmon has a muddy smell, soak it in strong saltwater or scald it in the same solution.
Parboil the portion of salmon not needed for the day and keep it in the cooking liquid.
Reheat the salmon in the cooking liquid when ready to serve.

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.