Grandma’s Canned Salmon Loaf

This is one of my Grandma’s an old canned salmon recipes that she used to make when she was first married about the time of WW1. As there wasn’t much money around this recipe uses just 1 small can of pink salmon.

Ingredients serves 2 -4

• 1 small can Pink Salmon
• 4 beaten eggs
• 4 tabsp melted butter
• ½ cup/4oz fresh breadcrumbs
• Salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Chopped Parsley

Sauce

• 1 cup/8floz milk
• 1 tabsp melted butter
• 1 tabsp cornstarch
• 1 beaten egg
• juice from canned salmon
• salt & pepper

Method

Drain the fish and reserve the juice from the can.
Mash the salmon in a bowl and add the butter.
Mix the breadcrumbs with the beaten eggs, add the chopped parsley and season . Add to the Salmon mixture.
Place in a greased mould, cover and either steam on top of the stove for 1 hour or place in a bain marie.

For the Sauce

Mix the butter and cornstarch together.
In a saucepan bring the milk to a boil and thicken with the butter and cornstarch mix.
Add the juice from the canned salmon and stir well. Take off the heat
Finally, add the beaten egg, stirring all the time or else you’ll get scrambled egg sauce (yuk!) and season to taste.

Serve the salmon loaf with French green beans and new potatoes with the sauce on the side.