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Mousse made with tinned salmon

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I've been craving this mousse I used to make 30 years ago but all the recipes I've found online use smoked salmon.

It was lovely and soft and creamy and the only ingredients I can remember are the tinned salmon and gelatin!

Any clues?

wasala - 2019-07-03 16:44:00
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What about this recipe using canned salmon.
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/35151/creamy-salmon-mousse.as
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I've never made a mousse, only made pate using salmon and cream cheese which was very nice.

nauru - 2019-07-03 17:04:00
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Just swap the smoked for tinned.

lythande1 - 2019-07-03 17:29:00
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nauru wrote:

What about this recipe using canned salmon.
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/35151/creamy-salmon-mousse.as
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I've never made a mousse, only made pate using salmon and cream cheese which was very nice.

Yes, that looks like it. Thank you! I'll make it tomorrow.

When I think back, it was the mid-1980s and I was a struggling scarfie, so probably couldn't afford smoked salmon but this mousse was still very nice. I made it for our flat dinner party and I would imagine that we ate it on Snax because there weren't many other biscuits to choose from!

wasala - 2019-07-03 18:03:00
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This is the one of a past member, cooksessentials, that I've used a lot.

• Salmon Mousse
I have been making this for years and it really is easy. I have a fish shaped tin to put it in but I guess you could put it into serving bowls to set. I don't serve it as a dish as such, I serve it with crackers and melba toast but you can actually serve it as a starter/entree if you wish.

2x 220g cans red salmon ( must be the red)
1 tbsp. gelatine
1/4 cup water
1 tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp chilli sauce
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 5bsp bottled horseradish sauce (meant Tablespoons)
1 Tabsp. mayonnaise ( I use Heinz)
1/2 cup cream
salt & pepper
4 gherkins and 1x green olive.

Place the un-drained salmon in food processor with metal blade and process till pureed. Sprinkle gelatine over cold water and dissolve over hot water. Combine in a bowl, the sugar, chilli sauce, lemon juice, horseradish, mayo and gelatine. Pour into pureed salmon and process 10 seconds or until combined. Season with salt and pepper. Whip cream until soft peaks form. Pour salmon mixture into cream and gently fold through. Pour into lightly oiled 1 litre ( 4 cup) capacity mould. Refrigerate, covered till set. Turn mousse on to serving plate. Cut three gherkins thinly and arrange in overlapping rows ( to create scales). Cut remaining gherkin into slices lengthwise, leaving attached at one end. Fan out ( to create tail and place on the tail of the fish. Cut olive in half and use for the eye ( very retro) I don't always bother with the gherkin, but the mousse is delicious.
Quoted by cookessentials (1219 ) 3:16 pm, Tue 10 Sep #553

Edited by autumnwinds at 7:44 pm, Wed 3 Jul

autumnwinds - 2019-07-03 19:44:00
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BTW - the fish-shaped anodised mould for these can often be found in op shops

autumnwinds - 2019-07-03 19:48:00
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autumnwinds wrote:

This is the one of a past member, cooksessentials, that I've used a lot.

• Salmon Mousse
I have been making this for years and it really is easy. I have a fish shaped tin to put it in but I guess you could put it into serving bowls to set. I don't serve it as a dish as such, I serve it with crackers and melba toast but you can actually serve it as a starter/entree if you wish.

2x 220g cans red salmon ( must be the red)
1 tbsp. gelatine
1/4 cup water
1 tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp chilli sauce
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 5bsp bottled horseradish sauce (meant Tablespoons)
1 Tabsp. mayonnaise ( I use Heinz)
1/2 cup cream
salt & pepper
4 gherkins and 1x green olive.

Place the un-drained salmon in food processor with metal blade and process till pureed. Sprinkle gelatine over cold water and dissolve over hot water. Combine in a bowl, the sugar, chilli sauce, lemon juice, horseradish, mayo and gelatine. Pour into pureed salmon and process 10 seconds or until combined. Season with salt and pepper. Whip cream until soft peaks form. Pour salmon mixture into cream and gently fold through. Pour into lightly oiled 1 litre ( 4 cup) capacity mould. Refrigerate, covered till set. Turn mousse on to serving plate. Cut three gherkins thinly and arrange in overlapping rows ( to create scales). Cut remaining gherkin into slices lengthwise, leaving attached at one end. Fan out ( to create tail and place on the tail of the fish. Cut olive in half and use for the eye ( very retro) I don't always bother with the gherkin, but the mousse is delicious.
Quoted by cookessentials (1219 ) 3:16 pm, Tue 10 Sep #553

Hi autumwinds,

Thanks so much for your reply.

I can actually imagine Hudson and Halls making this delicacy in a fish-shaped mould during their glory days in the 1970s. If you haven't already read their biography, by Joanne Drayton, then you must. It's fascinating.

So, the tin that I have says pink salmon. Will I easily find tinned red salmon at Countdown?

And where will I get horse radish sauce?

wasala - 2019-07-03 22:33:00
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And where will I get horse radish sauce?

Pak N Save or Countodwn sell it

petal1955 - 2019-07-04 09:12:00
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https://shop.countdown.co.nz/shop/searchproducts?search=hors
eradish+sauce

https://www.paknsaveonline.co.nz/Search?q=horseradish%20sauc
e

petal1955 - 2019-07-04 09:15:00
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wasala wrote:

Hi autumwinds,
Thanks so much for your reply.
I can actually imagine Hudson and Halls making this delicacy in a fish-shaped mould during their glory days in the 1970s. If you haven't already read their biography, by Joanne Drayton, then you must. It's fascinating.

So, the tin that I have says pink salmon. Will I easily find tinned red salmon at Countdown?


No worries! Yes, I don't need to imagine Hudson and Halls, I watched all their programmes!.

I also made a very similar dish to cookessentials's recipe back in the 70's, was always popular on the buffet table. I'm still looking for my own recipe, which had celery, cucumber, gherkins and more in the mix.

I also used pink salmon quite often - not as strong, but a few drops of cochineal food colouring, and a few Cold Ducks, and no-one knew the difference.... Food fashions change, don't they? But I admit to still having a fish mould.....

autumnwinds - 2019-07-04 09:41:00
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petal1955 wrote:

https://shop.countdown.co.nz/shop/searchpro
ducts?search=horseradish+sauce

https://www.paknsaveonline.co.nz/Search?q=horseradish%20sauc
e

Oh yes, of course. I've seen it there. I'm getting very excited about this now!

wasala - 2019-07-04 10:23:00
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My mother makes this Salmon Mousse, it is very light and lovely.

1/2 cup hot water
1 tb gelatine
1 chicken stock cube
210g can salmon, bones removed, save juice
2 chopped spring onions, or more to taste
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 tsp paprika
2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 cup natural yoghurt/lightly whipped cream (much nicer with yoghurt)
Oil mold or loaf tin. Beat hot water, gelatine & chicken stock cube until gelatine is clear. Add salmon & liquid, spring onions, mayonnaise, paprika & lemon juice. Mix with wooden spoon until smooth. Fold in yoghurt or cream. Pour into mould & chill until set.

fromwhereisit - 2019-07-12 17:22:00
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