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Fish Croquettes

A fried patty made from minced fish, breadcrumbs, egg, milk, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Fish Croquettes

Why it works: Fish and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,668 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Fish Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove all bones from the minced fish carefully.

  2. In a bowl, combine the fish, bread crumbs, pepper, and salt.

  3. Add the egg and milk to moisten the mixture, then work it together.

  4. Form the mixture into small cakes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each cake in beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot oil 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. Fish + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Fish + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,432 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked fish
Provides the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Bread crumbs
Bind the mixture and form a crisp golden coating when fried.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and helps the coating adhere.
Milk
Moistens the mixture so it holds together without drying out.

The step that matters

Remove all bones from the minced fish carefully. Small bones left in the minced fish are hard to notice once it is shaped and fried, and they can be unpleasant or hazardous to eat. Thorough removal before mixing protects the eater and keeps the texture smooth.

“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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