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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried patties made from flaked salmon, white sauce, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, salt, and egg white.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine the cold flaked salmon with the thick white sauce.

  2. Add cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and salt to taste.

  3. Gently fold in the well-beaten egg white.

  4. Spread the mixture on a plate to cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in breadcrumbs, then in egg, and again in breadcrumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes in deep fat until golden brown, then drain on paper towels.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Lemon and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 croquette filling.
Thick white sauce
Binds the flaked salmon together and keeps the filling moist.
Egg white
Helps bind the mixture and sets when heated, giving the croquettes structure.

The step that matters

Spread the mixture on a plate to cool. The filling must be cold and firm before shaping; a warm, soft mixture can't hold its shape and may fall apart or tear the coating while frying.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits less well
  4. Mangofits less well

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