Salmon (Steamed)

Ingredients

• Take a nice piece of salmon
• put into a buttered dish
• cover with buttered paper
• set the dish into a pan of boiling water
• allowing the water to come within one inch of the top of the dish
• steam 10 minutes to the pound
• or 16 minutes if a thick piece

Method

1. 1

   Serve on a serviette, and garnish with lemon, parsley, or fennel; serve with it fennel sauce, which may be made partly from the liquor that has run from the salmon into the dish.

2. 2

   This will be found a most economical way of cooking salmon, as it retains the whole of the flavour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic cookery (1886) by H. M. Young, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SALMON (Steamed). Take a nice piece of salmon, and put into a buttered dish ; cover with buttered paper, set the dish into a pan of boiling water, allowing the water to come within one inch of the top of the dish ; steam 10 minutes to the pound, or 16 minutes if a thick piece

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