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Salmon Croquettes

A fried croquette made with mashed salmon, eggs, butter, onion, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Drain the salmon and mash it finely.

  2. In a bowl, combine the mashed salmon, beaten eggs, melted butter, grated onion, bread crumbs, and seasonings. Mix all ingredients together until well combined.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into neat croquettes.

  2. Brush the croquettes with beaten egg and coat them in bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in hot oil until golden brown, then drain and serve hot.

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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

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

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 croquettes.
Eggs
Bind the mixture so the croquettes hold their shape.
Bread crumbs
Add bulk and absorb moisture, giving the croquettes a firmer texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing flavour and a tender interior.
Milk
Adds moisture, keeping the mixture soft and easy to shape.

The step that matters

Shaping and coating the croquettes. The mixture is soft and moist, so it must be well bound and chilled enough to hold its shape. Coating in egg and crumbs creates a sealed, crisp crust that keeps the filling from breaking apart in hot oil.

Swap the mace

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

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

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