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 ↓
Egg Croquettes
Ingredients
Directions
Miss Helen Sloneker.
Take 6 eggs boiled hard, 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon of butter, 2 tablespoons of flour, 1 tablespoon chopped parlsey, 1 teaspoon
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onion juice, I teaspoon salt, a dash of pepper. Boil tog-ether; then let stand on ice till cold. Shape into cylinders. Roll in egg and cracker crumbs, and fry in hot lard.
SWEETBREAD CROQUETTES No. i.
Mrs. E. S. Griffis.
One pair sweetbreads, parboiled. Break in small pieces. y2 can of mushrooms, chopped, i cup of warm, boiled rice. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and moisten with cream sauce. When cool, shape in croquettes and roll in eggs and bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat.
Cream Sauce.
i tablespoon of melted but- i cup of hot milk, added
ter. gradually.
i tablespoon of cornstarch. Season to taste.
SWEETBREAD CROQUETTES No. 2.
Mrs. H. L. Scott.
1 pint cooked and chopped ½ teaspoon chopped parsley.
sweetbreads. % pint cream.
2 tablespoons butter. A dust of nutmeg.
Mix the salt, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, and lemon juice with the mushrooms and sweetbreads, and set aside to season while making a white sauce with the butter, flour, and cream. Add the meat to the sauce, and lastly the beaten egg. Set away to cool or stiffen for two or three hours ; then shape, crumb, and fry in deep fat. Serve with cream sauce.
SWEETBREAD CROQUETTES No. 3.
Mrs. J. W. Pryor, Lexington, Ky.
i)/2 lbs. sweetbreads. 1 cup toasted breadcrumbs.
1 tray of brains. t egg.
Plunge sweetbreads into cold water for an hour; then par- boil. When cold, separate and pick apart. Parboil brains, mix
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with bread crumbs, and moisten with 3 or 4 tablespoons of water in which the sweetbreads were boiled ; season with white pepper, salt, nutmeg, and chopped parsley. Add the whole egg, and then mix in the sweetbreads. Set away to get thoroughly cold. Mold, roll in egg and cracker crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve writh rich mushroom sauce.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Eggs | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Parsley | 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) | 1 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together27,047 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together11,318 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together13,015 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together18,623 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the white pepper
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, butter, flour, egg, lemon, pepper, nutmeg):
- Cinnamonfits better
- Parsleyfits better
- Cardamomfits better
- White pepperthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, flour, egg, lemon, pepper, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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