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Broiled Salmon

Broiled Salmon is a dish of salmon slices seasoned, floured, and broiled, served with anchovy or caper sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and anchovy work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 535 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Broiled Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Dry the salmon slices with a cloth.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Dredge the slices in sifted flour.

Cook

  1. Broil on a gridiron greased with suet.

  2. Alternatively, butter sheets of white paper, place each slice on a piece, and wrap them with twisted ends.

  3. Broil gently over a clear fire.

Serve

  1. Serve with anchovy or caper sauce.

  2. For extra flavor, add chopped herbs and spices.

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. Salmon + anchovytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together535 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + anchovytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,697 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

  5. Pepper + anchovytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the dish and carries the cooking and seasoning.
Sifted flour
Dries the surface of the salmon and helps it brown lightly while broiling.
Suet
Greases the gridiron so the fish does not stick and gains a little richness.

The step that matters

Broil gently over a clear fire. Gentle, even heat cooks the salmon through without drying or charring the outside. Too fierce a fire scorches the flour coating before the centre is cooked.

“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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