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Lobster Croquettes

Lobster croquettes are breaded, fried lobster patties served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Lobster Croquettes

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Lobster Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the lobster very fine.

  2. Mix the lobster with pepper, salt, bread crumbs, and parsley.

  3. Moisten the mixture with cream and a small piece of butter.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes using your hands.

  2. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes until golden brown.

  2. Serve hot.

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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Explore the science

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

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

  2. Lobster + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster
Provides the main flavor and the bulk of the filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the croquettes structure so they hold their shape.
Cream
Moistens the filling, keeping the croquettes tender rather than dry.
Egg
Binds the coating so the bread crumbs stick and help the croquette hold together.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the moistened filling.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes until golden brown. Frying browns the bread crumb coating through the Maillard reaction, which builds flavor and color. Frying too long or at too low a heat can dry the lobster or leave the coating greasy.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, pepper, bread, cream, butter, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, pepper, bread, cream, butter, egg. 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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