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Chicken or Turkey Croquettes

A fried croquette made with milk, butter, flour, egg yolks, and finely chopped chicken or turkey, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken or Turkey Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Scald the milk in a double boiler.

  2. Add the butter and flour, stirring until thick.

  3. Season to taste and mix in the beaten egg yolks.

  4. Add the chopped chicken or turkey and let cool.

Shape, coat and fry

  1. Flour your hands and mold the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in the beaten eggs, then coat with bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in hot lard 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Combined with butter and milk, it thickens the sauce so the filling holds its shape.
Egg yolks
Enriches the thickened filling and helps bind it as it sets.
Chicken or turkey
Forms the main body of the filling, giving the croquettes their substance and flavor.
Eggs
The beaten egg coating sets during frying and helps bread crumbs adhere.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Cool the filling fully before shaping. A warm, loose filling is too soft to mold and will break or leak during coating and frying. Cooling lets the starch-thickened sauce firm up so croquettes keep their shape.

“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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