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Bice and Salmon Croquettes

A baked croquette made with cooked rice, salmon, white sauce, parsley, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Bice and Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

Make and coat the croquettes

  1. In a bowl, combine cooked rice, thick white sauce, salmon, salt, parsley, and pepper.

  2. Form the mixture into croquettes.

  3. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then coat with breadcrumbs.

Bake

  1. Place on a baking sheet and brown in the oven until golden.

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 + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Rice + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

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

  3. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Rice + salmontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together730 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked rice
Provides the bulk and starchy body that holds the croquette together.
Thick white sauce
Binds the mixture and adds moisture so the croquettes stay tender inside.
Salmon
Supplies the main flavor and tender, flaky texture of the filling.
Egg
Coats the croquettes so breadcrumbs stick and helps them set and brown.

The step that matters

Forming and coating the croquettes. If the mixture is too wet or loose, the croquettes will fall apart when shaped or dipped. A firm, well-combined filling holds its shape, and an even egg and breadcrumb coating helps it brown evenly in the oven.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Dillfits about as well
  4. Turmericfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sauce, salmon, pepper, 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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