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Salmon Baked with Pike Sauce

Salmon baked with a breadcrumb and herb stuffing, brushed with egg, and served with pike sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Salmon Baked with Pike Sauce

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the salmon

  1. Truss the salmon with kitchen twine as you would for boiling.

  2. Prepare a stuffing by mixing bread crumbs, pepper, salt, chopped herbs, butter, and 2 eggs.

  3. Stuff the mixture inside the salmon and skewer it closed.

Coat and bake

  1. Beat 1 egg with pepper and salt, then brush it over the salmon.

  2. Sprinkle bread crumbs over the salmon, then drizzle with clarified butter and add more bread crumbs.

  3. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.

  4. Remove the skewer and twine before serving with pike sauce underneath.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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, cooked gently in the oven until it flakes.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture in the stuffing and form a crisp, golden crust on the outside.
Eggs
Bind the stuffing together and, when brushed on, help the surface brown.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, and helps the crumb coating brown.

The step that matters

Bake in a hot oven until golden brown. A hot oven browns the crumb coating quickly while the fish cooks through. Watching colour and checking that the salmon flakes easily at the thickest point helps avoid dry, overcooked fish.

“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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