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Salmon Croquettes

A fried patty made from salmon, egg, milk, mashed potatoes, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Pepper and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Mix and shape

  1. In a bowl, mix the salmon, egg, salt, pepper, milk, and mashed potatoes until well combined.

  2. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot lard 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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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. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  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. Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main protein and flavor, and its flakes give the croquettes body.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and helps the bread crumbs stick to the coating.
Potatoes
Add bulk and starch that help the mixture hold its shape.
Milk
Adds moisture so the mixture stays soft and not dry.
Bread crumbs
Form a coating that browns and turns crisp when fried.

The step that matters

Fry in hot lard until golden brown. Hot fat sets the crumb coating quickly, creating a crisp crust. If the lard is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb more oil and turn greasy and soggy.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Tomatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, pepper, milk, bread. 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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