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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried cakes made from mashed salmon, bread crumbs, eggs, and seasonings.

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

Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Preheat the frying fat over medium heat.

  2. Remove the bones from the salmon and mash the fish in a bowl.

  3. Moisten the bread crumbs with milk and add to the mashed salmon.

  4. Beat the eggs and mix them into the salmon mixture along with salt and pepper.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into cakes.

  2. Dip each cake in the egg white.

  3. Fry the cakes in the hot fat until golden brown on both sides.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Salmon + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,577 recipes

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (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 flavor of the croquettes.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold together while frying.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set as it cooks.

The step that matters

Fry the cakes in the hot fat until golden brown on both sides. Frying in properly heated fat sets the coating quickly and browns the surface, helping the cakes hold their shape and avoid absorbing excess fat.

“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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