Name: Sausage Croquettes
Ingredients: 1 pound sausage meat; 2 eggs, well beaten; bread crumbs, well minced

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sausage Croquettes

Ingredients

1 pound sausage meat
2 eggs, well beaten
bread crumbs, well minced

Directions

Make the sausage meat into cakes.
Roll each cake in the beaten egg.
Coat the cakes in the bread crumbs.
Fry in a pan until golden brown and serve hot.

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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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.

Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,924 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,432 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sausage meat: Forms the main body of the croquettes and provides the savoury flavour.
Eggs: Binds the coating so the bread crumbs stick to each cake.
Bread crumbs: Forms a crisp outer crust that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Coat the cakes in the bread crumbs. The egg must be fully and evenly applied before the crumbs go on, otherwise the coating can fall off in the pan. Crumbs pressed firmly onto a thin, even egg layer brown more evenly during frying.

“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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Sausage Croquettes