My Grandmother's Salmon Patties

[Katiecooks]

This recipe is especially for Kevin to atone for having poked fun at salmon! I went snooping around in my grandmother's aging cookbook and found several recipes to share, this being the one I was particularly looking for. As a kid, I really enjoyed eating these.............

Ingredients:
1 15 oz can pink salmon
2 tlbs apple cider vinegar
1 egg
1 onion, finely chopped
1 to 1 1/2 C cracker and bread crumbs, mixed
2 tbls. chopped pimiento
Dash of prepared horseradish
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Remove any dark skin from the salmon and put the salmon, juice and bones (leave the bones out if you're squeamish) into a large bowl. Sprinkle with the vinegar to take away the fishy taste. Add egg, onion, crumbs, pimiento, horseradish and salt and pepper. Mix lightly and form into 6 to 7 patties. For more tender cakes, barely press everything together when forming patties.

Using a heavy cast iron skillet - get pan nice and hot and add shortening and fry cakes until brown on both sides.

For a super second-day treat, simply place a cold pattie or warm the pattie beforehand and put on hamburg bun, complete with mayo, lettuce and tomato for a tasty sandwish treat!

 

[The Ironic Chef]

Did I read that right, leave the bones in unless squeamish?

 

[Dilbert]

Did I read that right, leave the bones in unless squeamish?

yeah. nodda'prob. the bones in the canned stuff is so cooked/degraded that altho you can 'recognize' the bits as 'bone' - especially the spine - they are of no danger ala' choking, etc.

I usually pull out the spine chunks but leave the skin.
but I never buy pink, only the red sockeye.

not sure about the vinegar to take away the fishy taste.... I'm fixing fish, it should taste like fish . . . or is that just me?

 

[Mama Mangia]

sorry - no fish bones for me - and it hasn't a thing to do with being sqeamish.....

 

[Katiecooks]

Hi all - I simply typed what was in Gran's cookbook, exactly the way she wrote it about the fish bones. Personally, I hate the "crunch" myself and never liked them as a kid, either. Incidently, I'm not much of a fan of the "fishy" taste either but my cats do love red salmon and never want any vinegar with theirs!

 

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Ha! Thanks, katie. How sweet! I LOVE me some salmon patties! The vinegar in this recipe intrigues me- gonna hafta try it!

 

[jglass]

I love salmon patties. I always make mine with canned salmon - no bones, flour, egg, salt, pepper, green onion and a little garlic powder.

 

[jimgreen]

sounds pretty good

 

[linda5508]

same here salmon patties are awesome. I love it with some cheese bruschetta.

 

[1751Texan]

Durring Lentin season, my grandmother would make shrimp patties. She would use the dried shrimp powder mixed with fluffy egg whites and sauted in a fritter/patty.

 

[Katiecooks]

Your shrimp patties sound interesting - unfortunately, we can't do shellfish in my family as one person is alergic to iodine and it's not safe for him to eat it. Anything made with egg whites is always light and nice, though.