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Salmon Crouquettes

A fried snack of mashed potato and salmon formed into croquettes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Salmon Crouquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mash the salmon very fine and pour off any liquid.

  2. Combine the salmon with the mashed potato, eggs, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and cayenne pepper.

  3. Beat the mixture thoroughly and shape it into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in egg and then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot lard 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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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 + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Mashed potato
Adds bulk and moisture, helping the mixture hold together softly.
Eggs
Bind the mixture so the croquettes keep their shape when cooked.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer coating during frying.

The step that matters

Beating the mixture thoroughly. Thorough mixing evenly distributes the eggs and potato so the mixture binds well. Under-mixed croquettes can be loose and fall apart in the hot lard.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, sauce, pepper, bread. 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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