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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried cakes made from cold cooked salmon mixed with seasonings, cream sauce, egg, and breadcrumbs.

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

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine the chopped salmon, salt, mustard, cayenne pepper, onion juice, and parsley.

  2. Moisten the mixture with the cream sauce and add the beaten egg; mix thoroughly.

  3. Spread the mixture on a platter and let it cool.

  4. Shape the cooled mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

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

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot oil until golden brown; drain on paper towels.

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

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

  2. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  5. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Cream sauce
Adds moisture and richness so the mixture holds together softly.
Egg
Binds the mixture and helps the crumb coating adhere.

The step that matters

Cooling the mixture before shaping. The mixture must be cool and firm enough to hold its shape. Warm, soft mixture slumps and tears when shaped and coated, and it is hard to keep the croquettes intact in the hot oil.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, mustard, pepper, parsley, cream, sauce, egg):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, mustard, pepper, parsley, cream, sauce, 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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