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Fish Croquettes

Fish croquettes are fried balls of fish and mashed potato coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Fish Croquettes

Why it works: Cream and butter 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 ↓

Fish Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine the chopped fish with the mashed potatoes and mix thoroughly.

  2. Form the mixture into balls.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each ball in the beaten egg, then roll in cracker crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot oil 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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Fish + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,488 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Fish + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

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

  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

Fish
Provides the main body and flavour of the croquettes once flaked and bound together.
Mashed potatoes
Adds moisture and softness, helping the mixture hold together while keeping the centre tender.
Egg
Binds the coating so the cracker crumbs adhere evenly during frying.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried in hot oil.

The step that matters

Frying in hot oil until golden brown. If the oil is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb excess oil and turn greasy, and the coating may fall off. Hot oil quickly sets the egg and crumbs into a crisp crust while the centre heats through.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, cream, butter, 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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