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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried patties made with flaked salmon, mashed potatoes, egg, milk, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Salmon Croquettes

Why it works: Pepper and potato 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 Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Drain the salmon and flake it into a bowl.

  2. Mash the boiled potatoes and add to the salmon.

  3. Mix in the egg, milk, salt, and pepper until well combined.

  4. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

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

  2. Heat lard in a pan and fry the croquettes 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. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main protein and flavor base of the croquettes.
Boiled potatoes
Add starch and body, helping the mixture hold its shape.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and helps the coating adhere.
Milk
Adds moisture, keeping the mixture soft inside.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Shape the mixture into croquettes. The mixture must be well combined and firm enough to hold its shape. If it is too wet, the croquettes can fall apart in the hot lard, so the binding from the potato and egg matters.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, pepper, milk, 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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