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To Broil Salmon Steaks

Broiled salmon steaks served with melted butter, lobster sauce, or shrimp sauce and fried parsley garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 28,563 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

To Broil Salmon Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the salmon into steaks from the thickest part, about 1 inch thick.

  2. Butter pieces of white paper and wrap the steaks in them.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the wrapped steaks over a slow fire for 10 to 12 minutes.

  2. Remove the paper and serve the steaks garnished with plenty of fried parsley.

  3. Serve with melted butter, lobster sauce, or shrimp sauce.

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. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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

  3. Salmon + parsleytop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon steaks
Provide the main protein, which firms and turns opaque as it cooks.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the fish and the buttered paper.

The step that matters

Broil the wrapped steaks over a slow fire. Wrapping the steaks in buttered paper shields them from direct heat, so the fish cooks gently and stays moist. A fire that is too hot can dry or scorch the paper and the fish before the centre is cooked through.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, butter):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Dillfits about as well
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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