WE looked, and looked throughout our extensive collection of cookbooks from Betty Crocker, to Joy of Cooking, to California Cooking Academy A-Z, and online, but did not find what we would believe to be that recipe from that particular era that we remember was so good.
WE, that’s Mrs. RQSR, and myself believe the ingredients of that era would have been minced onions, perhaps minced celery, crushed Saltines as they were a biggee back then in so many recipes, egg(s) slightly beaten, salt, and pepper, perhaps some lemon juice, but will take some experimentation to come up with the proper amounts of the individual ingredients. We believe the croquettes were sauteed in a skillet on top of the stove in those days, and finished off in the oven.
We found Salmon Croquettes of all sorts, but none of them were very exciting, or seemed to be the sort of recipe we would have had sixty years ago as interest in cooking was really just taking off about then.
Kraft Foods, General Mills with their Betty Crocker Brand, Campbell Soup Company, Kelloggs, and other big name producers of food products were instrumental in experimentation to create recipes promoting their product lines. Those recipes would be published in every Home Making Magazine of the era, so which one is anybody’s guess.
My mom used to make salmon patties out of canned salmon. Salmon, crushed crackers, egg, salt and pepper pan fried in Crisco shortening. Pretty simple and good food!
thanks for all your efforts! I recall that these were made in a skillet, but I don’t know if they were also baked in an oven (my Aunt may have just heated them before serving), but they did spend some time in a skillet, due to the crust.
And I’m pretty sure they had mashed potatoes in them: My Aunt made the most AWESOME mashed potatoes!
Mark