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Lunch or Breakfast Dish

A salmon steak wrapped in thin paper and pan‑fried until brown.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Lunch or Breakfast Dish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wrap the salmon steak in thin writing paper.

  2. Fry the wrapped salmon in a pan until it is a delicate 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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What each ingredient does

Salmon steak
Forms the main protein; cooking it wrapped in paper keeps its moisture while the surface browns.

“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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