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Fish Roe Croquettes

Fish roe croquettes are fried cakes made with fish roe, mashed potatoes, cracker dust, spices, eggs, and butter.

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 ↓

Fish Roe Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Mix the roe with the mashed potatoes.

  2. Add cayenne pepper, black pepper, coarse sea salt, butter, 2 egg yolks, and 1 whole egg.

Shape and coat

  1. Form the mixture into cakes.

  2. Roll each cake in cracker dust, then in the whites of 2 eggs, and again in cracker crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in a very hot pan with plenty of grease.

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

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

  3. Roe + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together243 recipes

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

  4. Roe + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together442 recipes

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

  5. Roe + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42 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

Roe
Provides the main flavour and the body of the croquette filling.
Irish potatoes
Adds bulk and moisture, helping the mixture hold together when shaped.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set when cooked, holding the croquettes together.
Cracker dust
Forms a crisp, browned outer coating during frying.

The step that matters

Frying in a very hot pan with plenty of grease. If the fat is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy and soft before it browns. A hot pan with ample fat seals the crumb quickly, so the croquettes stay crisp and hold their shape.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against roe, pepper, egg, butter. 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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