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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried potato and salmon cakes 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 pepper 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

Prepare

  1. Combine the mashed potatoes, flaked salmon, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and egg yolk in a bowl.

  2. Chill the mixture for a while.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes and roll them in breadcrumbs.

  2. Heat oil in a deep pan and fry the croquettes until golden brown.

  3. Drain on paper towels 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 + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Potato + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Flaked salmon
Provides the main body and flavour of the croquettes.
Mashed potatoes
Adds bulk and softness, helping the mixture hold together when shaped.
Egg yolk
Binds the mixture and adds richness that helps it hold its shape.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the salmon.
Breadcrumbs
Forms a crisp, golden-brown coating when fried.

The step that matters

Chill the mixture before shaping. Chilling firms the mixture so the croquettes keep their shape. Shaping a warm, soft mixture can cause it to fall apart or spread in the hot oil.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lemon, 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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