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Salmon Croquettes

A fried croquette made from canned salmon, egg, breadcrumbs, and seasonings, served hot with parsley or lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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. Drain the liquid from the salmon and mince the fish.

  2. Melt butter and mix it with the minced salmon, adding salt, cayenne pepper, nutmeg, and lemon juice.

  3. If the mixture is too dry, add a little of the reserved liquid.

  4. Stir in the bread crumbs until well combined.

Shape and chill

  1. Form the mixture into rolls and coat them thickly with flour.

  2. Place the rolls in a cold place for 1 hour.

Fry and serve

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

  2. Serve on a hot platter, garnished with fresh parsley or lettuce.

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. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  5. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the croquettes and gives them their flavor.
Egg
Binds the mixture so the croquettes hold together when shaped and fried.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and add body, giving the mixture structure for shaping.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, which helps the croquettes brown when fried.
Flour
Forms a dry coating that helps the outside brown and crisp in the fat.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the salmon.

The step that matters

Chilling the rolls. Chilling firms the egg and fat in the mixture so the rolls hold their shape when they go into hot fat.

“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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