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Salmon Fritters

Salmon fritters are small patties made from canned salmon, mashed potatoes, butter, and cream, then fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Salmon Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove skin and bones from the canned salmon and mince it.

  2. Mix the minced salmon with the mashed potatoes, butter, and cream.

  3. Form the mixture into small patties.

Fry

  1. Fry the patties in a little butter until golden 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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  3. Salmon + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,401 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

  5. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Canned salmon
Provides the main protein and flavor of the fritters.
Mashed potatoes
Bind the salmon and add moisture so the patties hold together.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the patties brown when fried.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the mixture.

The step that matters

Forming and frying the patties. The mixture is soft and moist, so it needs to be shaped firmly and fried in enough butter over steady heat. This helps the patties hold their shape and develop a golden crust without breaking apart.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Leekfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, butter, cream. 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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