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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes made with cooked salmon, eggs, white sauce, and seasonings, coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

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

Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine the minced salmon, chopped eggs, and thick white sauce.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, cayenne, and parsley.

  3. Chill the mixture until firm, then shape into oblong croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each croquette in bread crumbs, then dip in beaten egg, and coat again in crumbs.

  2. Heat lard in a pan and fry the croquettes until golden brown.

  3. Alternatively, shape the mixture like lamb cutlets, brush with beaten egg, pat with bread crumbs, and fry in a little butter and lard until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with lemon wedges.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked salmon
Forms the bulk of the croquette and supplies the main flavour.
Hard boiled eggs
Add body and a soft, binding richness to the mixture.
Thick white sauce
Binds the salmon and eggs together and keeps the mixture moist.
Fine dried bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust when the croquettes are fried.

The step that matters

Chill the mixture until firm. A soft mixture will fall apart when shaped and fried. Chilling lets the white sauce set so the croquettes hold their shape and keep a neat coating.

“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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