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Chicken Croquettes

A fried chicken croquette made with seasoned chicken, thick cream sauce, and coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the chopped chicken with salt, celery salt, cayenne pepper, white pepper, onion juice, parsley, and lemon juice.

  2. Make a pint of very thick cream sauce and mix it with the seasoned chicken.

  3. Shape the mixture into croquettes using your hands.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each croquette in cracker crumbs, then dip in the egg yolk.

  2. Fry the croquettes in beef suet until golden brown.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  5. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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 and bulk of the croquette filling.
Thick cream sauce
Binds the chicken into a mixture that holds its shape when shaped.
Egg yolk
Helps the cracker crumb coating adhere and promotes browning when fried.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust during frying.

The step that matters

Make the cream sauce very thick. A thin sauce will not bind the chicken enough, so the croquettes may fall apart when shaped, coated, or fried. Chilling the shaped croquettes firm also helps them keep their form in hot fat.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, celery, pepper, onion, parsley, lemon, cream):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, celery, pepper, onion, parsley, lemon, cream. 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.

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