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Salmon Croquettes

A fried snack made from canned salmon mixed with spices, crumbs, and egg, formed into cones.

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

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mince the salmon finely.

  2. Add salt, cayenne pepper, parsley, and cracker crumbs.

  3. Moisten with the beaten egg.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into cones.

  2. Roll in cracker crumbs.

  3. 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Salmon + oniontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,529 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

Egg
Binds the minced salmon and crumbs together so the croquettes hold their shape.
Cracker crumbs
Absorb moisture and add body to the mixture, and form a crisp outer coating.
Canned salmon
Provides the main protein and flavor, forming the body of the croquettes.

The step that matters

Fry in hot lard until golden brown. If the lard is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb excess fat and turn greasy, and the coating browns unevenly. Hot fat sets the crumb coating quickly and gives a crisp, golden surface.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, pepper, egg, parsley):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, egg, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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