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Salmon Croquettes

A fried ball of mashed potatoes mixed with salmon, eggs, pepper, and salt, served with tomato sauce.

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

Why it works: Potato and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Drain the salmon and remove the bones and skins.

  2. Boil and mash the potatoes.

  3. Mix the salmon with the mashed potatoes.

  4. Add the well-beaten eggs, pepper, and salt.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into balls.

  2. Fry the balls in hot lard until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with tomato sauce.

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. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 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
Provides the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Potatoes
Add starch and bulk, helping the mixture hold its shape while binding the salmon.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together so the croquettes hold their shape when fried.
Lard
Conducts heat for frying, browning the outside to a golden crust.

The step that matters

Frying the balls in hot lard. If the lard is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb excess fat and turn greasy before browning. Enough heat sets the egg and starch on the outside quickly, forming a crust that holds the shape.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Potatothe original

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