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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are patties made from canned salmon, mashed potatoes, butter, and egg, fried and served with prune sauce and muffins.

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

Why it works: Potato and tea work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Drain the canned salmon and flake it into a bowl.

  2. Mix in the mashed potatoes and butter until well combined.

  3. Add the egg and mix until smooth.

Cook and serve

  1. Shape the mixture into small patties.

  2. Fry the patties in a skillet until golden brown on both sides.

  3. Serve with prune sauce and muffins.

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. Potato + teatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Add bulk and softness, helping the croquettes hold a tender interior.
Egg
Binds the mixture so the patties hold their shape while frying.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mixture and helps the surface brown.
Salmon
Provides the main protein and flavor of the croquettes.

The step that matters

Fry the patties until golden brown on both sides. Frying over steady heat browns the surface through the Maillard reaction, which adds flavor and a crisp exterior. Too high heat can scorch the outside before the centre is heated, while too low heat leaves patties pale and greasy.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, butter, egg, sauce, tea):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Cucumberfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, butter, egg, sauce, tea. 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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