Name: Veal or Poultry Croquettes
Ingredients: 1 pound minced veal; 2 cups cooked rice; 1 raw egg; seasoning to taste; sauce of veal or chicken

Why it works: Veal and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,119 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Veal or Poultry Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the minced veal, cooked rice, and raw egg in a bowl.
Season the mixture to taste.
Shape the mixture into croquettes.
Prepare a sauce using veal or chicken.
Serve the croquettes with the sauce.

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.

Veal + ricetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,119 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Rice + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,396 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Veal + saucetop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,072 recipes

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).
Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,350 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Veal + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,845 recipes

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