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Lamb Croquettes

A fried ball of shredded lamb mixed with breadcrumbs, milk, egg, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Lamb Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Heat milk until almost boiling.

  2. Combine shredded lamb, breadcrumbs, pepper, and salt in a bowl.

  3. Add hot milk to the meat mixture and stir well.

  4. Let mixture cool, then beat in the egg.

  5. Form mixture into balls.

Fry

  1. Heat lard and butter over medium‑high heat in a skillet.

  2. Fry croquettes until golden brown on all sides.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Lamb + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked lamb
Provides the main meaty filling and flavor of the croquettes.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb the milk and bind with the meat so the mixture holds its shape.
Milk
Moistens the breadcrumbs, keeping the filling tender rather than dry.
Egg
Sets when cooled and binds the mixture together into a firm shape.

The step that matters

Let mixture cool before beating in the egg. Adding egg to very hot mixture can scramble it and make it loose. Cooling first lets the egg blend smoothly and bind the filling so the balls hold their shape in the pan.

“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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