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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon croquettes are fried patties made from canned salmon, peas, and thick white sauce, seasoned with cayenne, lemon, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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. Mix the thick white sauce, canned salmon, and peas in a bowl. Add cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and salt.

  2. Spread the mixture on a plate and allow it to cool.

  3. Shape the cooled mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in egg, then roll in breadcrumbs.

  2. Heat oil in a deep pan.

  3. Fry the croquettes until golden brown.

  4. Drain the fried croquettes on paper towels.

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 + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Salmon + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Peas + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,005 recipes

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

  4. Peas + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,331 recipes

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

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

Canned salmon
Provides the main protein and flavour base of the croquettes.
Thick white sauce
Binds the salmon and peas together so the mixture holds its shape.
Peas
Add body and sweetness to the filling.
Egg
Helps the breadcrumb coating stick and adds structure as it sets.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture before shaping. A warm, loose mixture will not hold its shape and may fall apart in the oil. Cooling lets the white sauce firm up so the croquettes keep their form while frying.

Swap the peas

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

  1. Sesamefits about as well
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Chickpeafits about as well
  4. Beansfits about as well

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