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Chicken Croquettes

Fried, breaded chicken cones made with cream, flour, butter, and wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Chop the chicken.

  2. Mix the chicken with salt, pepper, nutmeg, lemon juice, and wine.

  3. Combine cream, flour, and butter in a saucepan.

  4. Cook until thickened.

  5. Pour the thickened mixture over the chicken mixture on a platter.

  6. Let the mixture cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into cones.

  2. Whip an egg, then dip each cone in it.

  3. Roll each cone in the crushed crackers.

Fry

  1. Cook in boiling oil 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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  3. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken or turkey
Provides the main body and meaty filling of the croquettes.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the sauce and filling.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and richness, helping the filling stay soft and smooth.
Flour
Thickens the cream mixture so the filling can hold its shape.
Mashed potatoes
Adds body and moisture, helping the filling bind together.
Rolled crackers
Forms a crisp coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. The flour-thickened sauce firms as it cools. If the mixture is still warm and loose, the cones will not hold their shape and may break apart in the oil.

“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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