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Rice Salmon Loaf

A baked loaf made from cooked rice, flaked salmon, bread crumbs, eggs, and seasonings.

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 ↓

Rice Salmon Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

  2. Generously butter a baking dish or pan and line it with some of the cooked rice, reserving some for the top.

  3. In a bowl, mix together the salmon, bread crumbs, salt, beaten eggs, green pepper, white pepper, and cayenne pepper.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the mixture in the lined baking pan and cover with the remaining rice.

  2. Bake for about 45 minutes.

  3. Remove from the oven and let it cool in the pan.

  4. Once cooled, remove from the pan and place on a platter, garnished with slices of hard‑cooked eggs and lemon.

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. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

  3. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

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

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

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 set firm as it bakes, giving the loaf structure.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture from the salmon and eggs, helping the loaf hold together.
Cooked rice
Forms the bulk of the loaf, adding body and a soft, tender texture.
Salmon
Provides the main flavour and protein, flaking into the loaf as it sets.

The step that matters

Letting the loaf cool in the pan. Cooling before unmoulding lets the egg proteins finish setting and the starches firm up, so the loaf holds its shape when removed and sliced.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, salmon, bread, egg, pepper, butter):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, salmon, bread, egg, pepper, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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