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Salmon Croquettes

A fried roll of minced salmon mixed with egg, breadcrumbs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Drain the liquid from the salmon and mince the fish.

  2. Melt butter and mix it with the salmon.

  3. Season the mixture with salt, cayenne pepper, nutmeg, and lemon juice.

  4. If needed, moisten the mixture with a little of the liquid.

  5. Add the bread crumbs and mix well.

Shape and chill

  1. Form the mixture into rolls.

  2. Coat the rolls with flour.

  3. Place the rolls in a cold place for 1 hour.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the rolls in hot fat until golden brown.

  2. Serve the rolls on a hot platter.

  3. Garnish with fresh parsley or lettuce.

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

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

  2. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  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

Salmon
Provides the main body and flavour of the croquettes.
Egg
Binds the mixture so the rolls hold their shape while frying.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture set into a firm, sliceable texture.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the fried exterior brown.

The step that matters

Chilling the shaped rolls. Cold resting firms the binder and fat so the rolls keep their shape instead of falling apart in hot fat.

Swap the nutmeg

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

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Dillfits about as well
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Nutmegthe original

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