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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried potato‑salmon cakes coated in breadcrumbs, served with drawn butter sauce.

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

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Salmon Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine mashed potatoes, flaked salmon, lemon juice, chopped parsley, salt, pepper, and egg yolk; chill the mixture.

  2. Shape the mixture into croquettes and roll them in breadcrumbs, then dip in egg, and roll in breadcrumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in deep fat until golden brown.

  2. Drain on paper towels, garnish, and serve with Drawn Butter Sauce.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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.
Hot mashed potatoes
Bind the filling and add moisture so the croquettes hold their shape.
Egg yolk
Binds the mixture and helps the coating stick during frying.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden-brown outer crust when fried.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the salmon.

The step that matters

Chilling the mixture before shaping. A cold, firm mixture holds its shape when handled. Skipping the chill can leave soft croquettes that fall apart or absorb too much oil during frying.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lemon, parsley, pepper, 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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