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Salmon Baked with Bread Crumbs

A salmon fillet baked with a bread crumb coating seasoned with spices and clarified butter.

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 ↓

Salmon Baked with Bread Crumbs

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Remove the skin from the salmon and cut the salmon into thick slices.

  3. Season the salmon with spices, coarse sea salt, and minced herbs if desired.

  4. Arrange the salmon evenly in a dish.

Crust and bake

  1. Moisten the bread crumbs with clarified butter.

  2. Cover the salmon with the moistened bread crumbs.

  3. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes until rich and flavorful.

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

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

  3. Salmon + breadtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together941 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon fillets
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking through under the crumb crust.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust that shields the fish while it bakes.
Clarified butter
Moistens the crumbs so they brown evenly and add rich flavor.

The step that matters

Covering the salmon with moistened crumbs. Crumbs that are too dry will not brown or bind, and crumbs that are too wet will turn soggy and steam the crust. Even coverage also keeps the fish from drying out in the oven.

“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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