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Croquettes Op Salmon

A fried patty of mashed salmon mixed with eggs, butter, and seasonings, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Croquettes Op Salmon

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Pour off the liquid from the can of salmon and place the meat in a bowl.

  2. Remove bones and skin, then mash the meat as smooth as possible.

  3. Moisten with a little milk, then add pepper, salt, butter, and eggs. Mix thoroughly and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.

Shape and fry

  1. Heat oil in a pan until boiling.

  2. Using a fork, separate portions of the mixture, roll them in eggs and then in bread crumbs.

  3. Drop the croquettes into the hot oil and fry 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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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. Butter + breadtop 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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, 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 protein of the croquettes once mashed and shaped.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and form a coating that helps the crumbs stick.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
Milk
Adds moisture so the mashed salmon stays tender rather than dry.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the salmon mixture.

The step that matters

Chilling the mixture before shaping. Refrigerating for 2-3 hours firms the mashed mixture and its egg binder, so the portions hold their shape and do not fall apart in the hot oil.

“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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