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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried patties made from flaked salmon mixed with cream sauce, cayenne, lemon, onion juice, and salt, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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. Remove bones and skin from the salmon and flake it finely with two forks.

  2. Mix the salmon with the thick cream sauce, cayenne, lemon juice, onion juice, and salt. Set aside to cool.

  3. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each croquette in bread crumbs, then dip in the beaten egg, and coat again with bread crumbs.

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

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

  2. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Salmon + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,401 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

Cold cooked salmon
Provides the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Thick cream sauce
Binds the flaked salmon and adds moisture so the croquettes stay tender.
Egg
Binds the bread crumb coating so it adheres during frying.
Bread crumbs
Forms a crisp, golden browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A cooled, firm mixture holds its shape when formed and coated. Warm, loose mixture can slump and break apart in the oil, so the croquettes may fall apart.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, cream, sauce, pepper, lemon, bread, 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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