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Salmon En Casserole

A baked casserole of salmon, rice, eggs, milk, butter, salt, and paprika, finished with white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Salmon En Casserole

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook the rice and let it cool.

  2. Line a baking dish with the cooled rice.

Assemble and cook

  1. Flake the salmon and mix it with the beaten eggs, milk, butter, salt, and paprika.

  2. Stir the mixture lightly into the salmon.

  3. Cover the salmon mixture lightly with rice.

  4. Steam for one hour.

Serve

  1. Serve with white 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  5. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 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

Eggs
Bind the salmon mixture and help it set into a firm, sliceable casserole.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the egg mixture as it cooks.
Rice
Forms the base and topping layers, giving the casserole its body.
Salmon
Provides the main protein and flavor of the casserole.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender texture.

The step that matters

Stir the mixture lightly into the salmon. Gentle mixing keeps the salmon in flakes and avoids overworking the egg mixture, which can make the casserole dense and rubbery once set.

“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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