Name: Telegram Conservation Cook Book
Ingredients: one cupful finely chopped chicken; 1 cupful finely sifted bread crumbs; 3 tablespoonfuls of shortening in the pan; 1 cupful of hot water; one pint of gravy; 2 tablespoonfuls of flour add 1 teaspoonful of parsley; 1 teaspoonful of parsley; 1 pint water; 1 pint water 0000 wood heat; 3 cups bread crumbs; 1 cup dried whole cost; 1 cup raisins; 2 teaspoonfuls salt; 2 quarts dressing; one teaspoonful soda to each quart of water used; 1 teaspoonful of salt; 1 quart flour; 1 pint of water; 1 cup chopped apples 0200 1 small onion; four slices bacon 0400 stove heat 2 hours; 2 cups bread crumbs; 1 cup chopped apple; 2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter; a cup of water; 3 cost of preparing croquettes; 1 beaten egg; one side turn; 2 tablespoon- fuls of butter; 2 lbs; 1 egg

Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

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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.

Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,075 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,814 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,843 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken: Forms the main body of the croquettes and gives them their flavour.
Bread crumbs: Bind the chicken mixture and form the crisp outer coating.
Egg: Binds the mixture together and helps the crumb coating adhere.

The step that matters

Plunge into smoking hot fat. The fat must be very hot so the crumb coating crisps quickly and seals before the croquette absorbs grease. Cold or slow fat leads to soggy, oily croquettes that may fall apart.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, bread, flour, parsley, raisin, onion, butter):

Lemonfits better
Coconutfits better
Avocadofits better
Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, bread, flour, parsley, raisin, onion, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Apple	1 medium (182g)	95
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
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
Wood	not in our table	0
Fruit	not in our table	0
Prune	not in our table	0
Goose	not in our table	0

Telegram Conservation Cook Book