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!

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?

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

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!