Name: Meat Croquettes
Ingredients: one tea- spoonful of lemon juice; pepper; salt; lemon juice

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Meat Croquettes

Ingredients

one tea- spoonful of lemon juice
pepper
salt
lemon juice

Directions

Run any kind of cold meat through meat grinder, season with pepper and salt, mix with a beaten egg and one tea- spoonful of lemon juice, roll in cracker meal and fry in hot lard. — Mrs. A. Lebsch, Williams, Ariz.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

18Calories

1 gProtein

0 gFat

5 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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. See the original page.

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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.

Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Tea + lemontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together610 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Tea + peppertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together260 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).