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Salmon Croquettes

A fried patty made from mashed salmon, eggs, and breadcrumbs.

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

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Remove all bones from the salmon and mash it until smooth.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper to taste.

  3. Add the eggs and mix well.

  4. Grate enough bread crumbs to equal half the amount of salmon.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into three-cornered rolls.

  2. Dip each roll in beaten egg, then roll in dry bread crumbs.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

  4. Salmon + breadtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together941 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Salmon + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the croquettes and provides the flavour and protein structure.
Eggs
Bind the mashed salmon together and add structure, and also form the coating that helps the crumbs stick.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the mixture body, and form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Fry until golden brown. Frying in hot fat browns the crumb coating through the Maillard reaction and crisps it, while the moist salmon inside cooks through. Too low a heat leaves the coating greasy and pale.

“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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