Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2000
How do you get a delicate yet toothsome texture and a soft but clear salmon flavor? It's all in how you handle the fish and the binders.
For a salmon cake recipe that would produce crisp, browned, bright-flavored cakes, we chopped fresh fillets by hand, used a bit of mayonnaise as a binder and fresh bread crumbs for texture, and flavored the cakes with a simple combination o...