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Fish Croquettes

Fish croquettes are fried patties made from cold cooked fish mixed with sauce, herbs, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Fish Croquettes

Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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 ↓

Fish Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the cold cooked fish, croquette sauce, salt, pepper, lemon juice, onion juice, and chopped parsley in a bowl.

  2. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in bread crumbs, then in the beaten egg, and again in bread crumbs.

  2. Heat oil in a deep pan until smoking hot, then fry the croquettes 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. Lemon + parsleytop 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. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Fish + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold cooked fish
Forms the main body and flavour of the croquettes.
Croquette sauce
Binds the fish into a mixture that holds its shape when shaped.
Egg
Binds the bread crumb coating so it adheres during frying.
Bread crumbs
Forms a crisp outer crust that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Frying in smoking-hot oil. If the oil is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb excess oil and turn greasy before the crumb crust sets and turns golden. Oil that is too hot can brown the outside before the centre heats through.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, sauce, pepper, lemon, parsley, bread, egg):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, sauce, pepper, lemon, parsley, bread, egg. 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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