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Turkey Croquettes

Turkey croquettes are baked rolls of seasoned turkey mixed with breadcrumbs and egg, flavored with currant jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Turkey Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the croquettes as you would chicken croquettes.

  2. Mix cooked turkey with fine bread crumbs and one beaten egg to bind the mixture.

  3. Add a teaspoon of currant jelly for flavor.

  4. If the mixture is too dry, add a little gravy or sweet milk.

Bake and serve

  1. Shape the mixture into rolls and bake until golden brown.

  2. Serve in a heated dish garnished with parsley.

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 + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Turkey + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together281 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

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

  5. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked turkey
Forms the main body of the croquettes and gives them their savory flavor.
Fine bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold its shape while baking.
Egg
Binds the mixture together so the rolls hold their shape.
Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and a fruity tang that balances the savory turkey.

The step that matters

Adding gravy or sweet milk. Turkey dries out easily, and adding liquid only when the mixture is too dry keeps it moist without making it soft. Adding it too early can make the mixture hard to shape.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, bread, egg, milk, parsley):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, bread, egg, milk, parsley. 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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