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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried patties made from mashed potatoes mixed with salmon, seasoned, coated in egg and cracker crumbs.

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

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Remove all bones and skin from the salmon and break it into pieces.

  2. Mash the potatoes and season with coarse sea salt and cayenne pepper.

  3. Mix the mashed potatoes well with the salmon.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Roll each croquette in beaten egg and then in cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes until golden brown.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish with parsley and sliced lemon before serving.

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. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 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
Provides the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Potatoes
Add starch and moisture that bind the salmon and keep the centre tender.
Egg
Binds the mixture and forms a coating that helps the crumbs stick.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the croquettes until golden brown. Frying at a steady heat browns the crumb coating through Maillard browning while the inside heats gently. Oil that is too cool lets croquettes soak up grease and fall apart, while oil that is too hot browns the outside before the centre is heated through.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

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