Skip to main content
Main

Salmon Chops

A fried salmon patty made with milk, shredded wheat biscuits, macaroni, and coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Salmon Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Remove bones from the salmon and chop it finely.

  2. Make a thick cream sauce using the milk and add it to the salmon.

  3. Grind the shredded wheat biscuits and mix them into the salmon mixture; season with salt and pepper.

Shape and cook

  1. Shape the mixture into chop-like forms and insert a piece of macaroni into each to represent the bone.

  2. Dip each chop in beaten egg and roll in cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry in deep oil 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.

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 + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Wheat + biscuittop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Biscuit + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together841 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Wheat + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together984 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 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 flavour of the patties.
Milk
Forms a thick cream sauce that moistens the salmon mixture.
Shredded wheat biscuits
Ground up, they absorb liquid and help bind the mixture.
Egg
Binds the coating so the cracker crumbs adhere to each patty.

The step that matters

Frying in deep oil. Frying until golden brown browns the crumb coating through the Maillard reaction, while the interior must be heated fully so the mixture sets. Too low a heat leaves the coating greasy and the centre soft.

“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.

You might also like

Salmon SaladSalmon Salad155 recipesSalmon CroquettesSalmon Croquettes129 recipesPotato BiscuitPotato Biscuit32 recipesCanned SalmonCanned Salmon14 recipes