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To Broil Salmon Steaks

Salmon steaks wrapped in buttered paper and broiled, served with fried parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and fish are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,078 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

To Broil Salmon Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Butter pieces of white paper.

  2. Fold the salmon steaks in the buttered paper.

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.

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.

Explore the science

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. Salmon + fishtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Fish + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

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

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

  5. Fish + parsleytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon steaks
Form the main protein, cooked gently inside the paper so the flesh stays moist.
Butter
Fat that lightly coats the paper and helps keep the wrapped fish from sticking.

The step that matters

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

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Gingerfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, fish, 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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