Name: Mayonnaise of Salmon
Ingredients: 2 lbs. salmon; mayonnaise

Mayonnaise of Salmon

Ingredients

2 lbs. salmon
mayonnaise

Directions

Prepare

Boil the salmon until cooked through.
Let the salmon cool, then remove the skin and bones.

Serve

Slice the salmon into serving pieces.
Serve with mayonnaise drizzled on top.

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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What each ingredient does

Salmon: Provides the main protein and flesh that makes up the dish.
Mayonnaise: Adds richness and fat, giving the salmon a creamy, moist finish.

“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.