Name: Salmon Croquettes
Ingredients: 1 cup thick white sauce; Salt to taste; Few grains cayenne; Cold flaked salmon; Bread crumbs; 1 egg; Hot mashed potatoes

Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Combine thick white sauce with cold flaked salmon and season with salt and cayenne.
Spread the mixture on a plate and let it cool.
Shape the cooled mixture into croquettes.
Dip each croquette in bread crumbs, then in beaten egg, and again in bread crumbs.
Fry the croquettes in deep fat until golden brown, then drain on paper towels.

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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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.

Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together434 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,485 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Salmon + breadtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together941 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Salmon + potatotop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together952 recipes

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