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Salmon Croquettes

A fried ball of salmon and seasoned mashed potatoes coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Salmon and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,485 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Remove skin and bones from the salmon and mince it finely.

  2. Add an equal amount of seasoned mashed potatoes and 1 cup of cracker crumbs. Mix well and form into balls about the size of a walnut.

Coat and fry

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

  2. Dip each ball into the beaten eggs, then coat with cracker crumbs.

  3. Drop the balls into boiling lard and fry 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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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. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Salmon + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together952 recipes

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

  3. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (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.
Seasoned mashed potatoes
Adds bulk and moisture, helping the mixture hold together.
Cracker crumbs
Binds the mixture and forms a crisp coating when fried.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help the crumb coating stick.

The step that matters

Dip each ball into the beaten eggs, then coat with cracker crumbs.. The egg and crumb coating must fully cover each ball, or it can break apart or soak up fat in the hot lard. Shaping the balls firmly before coating also helps them hold together while frying.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, 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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