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Salmon Croquettes

A fried patty of salmon mixed with celery, parsley, onion, lemon juice, and sweet cream, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Break the salmon into fine pieces using your fingers.

  2. In a bowl, combine the salmon, celery, parsley, onion, salt, pepper, lemon juice, and sweet cream, then mix all the ingredients together until well combined.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Roll each croquette in the beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes 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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the bulk of the croquettes and provides the main flavor and protein structure.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and richness so the mixture holds together softly.
Egg
Binds the croquettes and helps the bread crumb coating adhere.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer coating when fried.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the salmon.

The step that matters

Frying the croquettes until golden brown. The mixture is already cooked salmon and binders, so the goal is a crisp, browned crust. Frying too cool makes them greasy and soft, while frying too hot can brown the crumbs before the centre is heated through.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, celery, parsley, pepper, lemon, cream, egg. 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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