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Salmon Cutlets

Salmon cutlets are minced salmon mixed with lemon, parsley, white sauce, then coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine minced fish, salt, pepper, parsley, lemon juice, and thick white sauce.

  2. Mix well and let it cool, then shape into cutlet forms.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each cutlet in breadcrumbs and then dip in beaten egg.

  2. Coat again in breadcrumbs.

  3. Fry in deep hot fat until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with paper ruffles at the small end and pour Hollandaise or white sauce around them.

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 fish
Forms the main body of the cutlet and gives it its flavour.
Thick white sauce
Binds the minced fish and keeps the mixture moist.
Egg
Beaten egg helps the breadcrumbs adhere and binds the coating.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the fish.

The step that matters

Fry in deep hot fat until golden brown. Hot fat sets the breadcrumb coating quickly, so it turns crisp and browns evenly. If the fat is not hot enough, the coating soaks up grease and can fall apart or stay pale and soggy.

“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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