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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried patties made from minced salmon, bread crumbs, milk, butter, salt, mace, cayenne pepper, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine the minced salmon, bread crumbs, milk, butter, salt, mace, and cayenne pepper. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

  2. Form the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each croquette in beaten egg and then in cracker crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in deep fat 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Mace + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,257 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

Mace and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,257 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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Absorb the milk and butter and give the mixture body so it holds its shape.
Eggs
Bind the croquettes together and form a coating that browns when fried.
Salmon
Provides the main protein and flavor, and its flakes help the croquettes hold together.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mixture and helps the croquettes brown.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes in deep fat until golden brown. Croquettes must be fully coated and bound before frying, or they can break apart in the hot fat. Frying at a steady heat browns the coating quickly while the inside warms through, so the exterior does not burn before the center is hot.

Swap the mace

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, bread, milk, egg, butter, pepper. 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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