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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried rolls of minced salmon mixed with eggs, breadcrumbs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Anchovy and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,057 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mince the salmon and work in the slightly warmed butter.

  2. Add the powdered yolks, anchovy sauce, lemon juice, and seasonings.

  3. Mix in the raw eggs and breadcrumbs until well combined.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into rolls and coat them in flour.

  2. Fry the croquettes quickly in sweet lard until golden brown.

  3. Drain on a clean cloth to remove excess grease.

Serve

  1. Serve on a dish lined with colored tissue paper.

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. Anchovy + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  3. Salmon + anchovytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together535 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + anchovytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,330 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + anchovytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,697 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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 flavor.
Raw eggs
Bind the mixture together and help it set when cooked.
Hard boiled egg yolks
Add richness and a smooth, tender texture to the mixture.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb moisture and give the mixture body so it holds its shape.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the mixture moist and tender.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes quickly in sweet lard until golden brown.. Frying at a steady, fairly high heat browns the flour coating quickly and sets the egg-bound mixture before it can soak up grease or fall apart. Slow frying leads to greasy, crumbling croquettes.

Swap the mace

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, butter, anchovy, sauce, lemon, 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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