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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried patties made from salmon, eggs, butter, milk, and crushed crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Drain the salmon and chop it finely.

  2. In a bowl, combine the chopped salmon, beaten eggs, melted butter, crushed crackers, and milk. Mix until a soft paste forms.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into desired forms.

  2. Dip each croquette in egg, then coat with cracker crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in hot lard until golden brown.

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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Explore the science

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Salmon + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and help the coating adhere.
Soda crackers
Absorb moisture and add bulk so the mixture holds its shape.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mixture.
Milk
Adds moisture so the mixture forms a soft paste.

The step that matters

Fry in hot lard until golden brown. If the lard is not hot enough, croquettes absorb excess fat and turn greasy and pale, while a properly hot pan browns the coating quickly and seals it, keeping the inside moist.

“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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