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Chicken Croquettes

A baked or fried dish of chicken, breadcrumbs, butter, stock, eggs, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure. The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Make the mixture

  1. In a saucepan, melt the butter and add the stock.

  2. Once heated, add the chicken and bread crumbs, stirring well.

  3. Remove from heat and mix in the beaten eggs.

Bake and serve

  1. Transfer the mixture into greased molds or cups.

  2. Place the molds in a baking dish filled with hot water.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 15 minutes.

  4. Alternatively, shape the mixture and deep fry in hot oil.

  5. Serve with a rich sauce made from milk thickened to the consistency of cream.

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.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  4. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and set it firm when cooked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the liquid and give the mixture body for shaping.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for flavour and a softer texture.
Stock
Adds moisture and savoury flavour to the chicken mixture.
Broken pieces of cooked chicken
Provides the main protein and flavour of the croquettes.

The step that matters

Remove from heat before mixing in the eggs. Eggs scramble when exposed to high heat, which would leave lumps and uneven binding instead of a smooth mixture that sets evenly.

“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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