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Fish Croquettes

Fish croquettes are fried patties made from flaked fish mixed with sauce, herbs, and spices, coated in crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Fish Croquettes

Why it works: Parsley and lemon 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 the mixture

  1. Flake the fish with a silver fork.

  2. Add pepper, salt, parsley, lemon juice, and Thick White Sauce, then mix well.

  3. Spread the mixture on a plate to cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes and roll in cracker crumbs.

  2. Dip in beaten egg, then roll in cracker crumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in deep hot oil until golden brown.

  2. Drain on paper towels and serve with Egg, Hollandaise, or Tartare Sauce.

  3. Garnish with sliced lemon and parsley.

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. Parsley + lemontop 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. Fish + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,889 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Fish + parsleytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,341 recipes

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

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 flavor of the croquettes.
Thick white sauce
Adds moisture and binds the flaked fish into a shapeable mixture.
Egg
Helps the cracker crumbs adhere and form a crisp coating.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden-browning outer crust when fried.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the fish.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. Cooling firms the white sauce so the mixture holds its shape. Shaping warm mixture makes croquettes soft and likely to break apart in the hot oil.

“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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