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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried patties made from salmon, celery or lettuce, eggs, and seasonings, coated in cracker dust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Remove all bones from the salmon and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Chop the salmon finely with celery or lettuce.

  3. Add celery seed and raw eggs, mixing well.

Shape and fry

  1. Mold the mixture into desired shapes.

  2. Roll each croquette in cracker dust.

  3. Fry in butter or lard until light 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. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  2. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the croquettes and provides their flavour.
Raw eggs
Bind the chopped salmon so the croquettes hold their shape.
Cracker dust
Forms a crisp coating that browns during frying.
Celery
Adds moisture and a fresh, mild crunch to the mixture.

The step that matters

Fry in butter or lard until light brown. Frying over moderate heat browns the cracker coating and cooks the raw egg binder through. Too little heat leaves the centre undercooked, while too much heat burns the coating before the inside sets.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Celerythe original

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