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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes made with canned salmon, white sauce, bread crumbs, egg yolks, and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon mixture

  1. Drain the can of salmon and remove any bones or skin.

  2. In a saucepan, heat the white sauce with the salmon, stirring until smooth.

  3. Season with salt and pepper, then spread the mixture on a platter to a thickness of 2 inches and let it cool for 2 hours.

  4. Cut the mixture into pieces and shape them into small pyramids.

Bread and fry

  1. Dip each pyramid in bread crumbs, then in beaten egg yolks, and again in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot oil using a wire basket until golden brown.

  3. Drain on brown paper in a warm oven.

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

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

  2. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  4. Salmon + breadtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together941 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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.
White sauce
Binds the salmon so the mixture holds its shape when cooled and shaped.
Egg yolks
Coat the pyramids and help the bread crumbs adhere and brown during frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Cooling the mixture before shaping. The mixture must cool and firm fully so the pyramids keep their shape; shaping it warm lets it slump, and the coating then falls off 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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