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Salmon Croquettes

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Milk and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Thicken the milk with flour and let it cool.

  3. Mince the salmon until very fine.

  4. Add white pepper to the minced salmon.

  5. Moisten the salmon with the cooled milk and work it into a paste.

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. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Milk + salmontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,577 recipes

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

  3. Flour + salmontop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  4. Milk + white peppertop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,304 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Flour + white peppertop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,228 recipes

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, flour, salmon):

  1. Jalapenofits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

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

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