To Boil Salmon
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bend the head of the salmon towards the tail.
Place the salmon in a large kettle with plenty of spring water and coarse sea salt.
Cut several gashes in the bent side of the skin to prevent it from breaking.
Cook and serve
Boil until cooked through.
Serve with your choice of sauce, preferably lobster sauce.
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
- Its flesh firms and turns opaque as the proteins set during cooking.
The step that matters
Boil until cooked through. Salmon is done when its proteins have just set. Past that point they tighten further and squeeze out moisture, so the flesh turns dry and firm. Check it early and remove it as soon as it is cooked through.
“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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