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Creamed Salmon, Miss H. Barclay

A baked salmon dish layered with milk, butter, breadcrumbs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Creamed Salmon, Miss H. Barclay

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the milk

  1. Draw off the liquor from the salmon.

  2. In a saucepan, boil the milk with butter, salt, and pepper.

Layer and bake

  1. In a baking dish, place a layer of bread crumbs at the bottom.

  2. Add a layer of minced salmon, followed by a layer of the milk dressing.

  3. Repeat the layers, finishing with a layer of bread crumbs on top.

  4. Bake until the top is brown.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Salmon + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,577 recipes

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

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 provides its flavor and protein structure.
Milk
Makes a moist, creamy dressing that softens the crumbs and keeps the layers tender.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the milk dressing and give the layers body, while the top layer crisps and browns.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the milk dressing, giving a smoother, softer texture.

The step that matters

Bake until the top is brown. The top layer of bread crumbs needs enough heat to brown and crisp. Stopping too early leaves it pale and soft, while baking too long can dry out the layers beneath.

“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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