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Croquettes or Rissoles of Chicken

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Croquettes or Rissoles of Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove all flesh from the bones of the cold chicken and place it on a board.

  2. Remove the skin and mince the meat finely.

  3. Wash, peel, and mince the mushrooms with the ham, then mix with the minced chicken.

  4. Melt the butter in a stewpan over medium heat.

  5. Stir in the flour to form a smooth paste.

  6. Add the stock and stir until it boils and thickens.

  7. Remove from heat and stir in the cream.

  8. Squeeze the lemon juice into the sauce, being careful to avoid seeds.

  9. Season with pepper and salt to taste, and add nutmeg if desired.

  10. Mix in the minced chicken, ham, and mushrooms until well combined.

  11. Transfer the mixture to a plate and cover with buttered kitchen paper to cool.

  12. Once cool, heat lard or clarified dripping in a deep stewpan.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

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

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Flour and butter 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, ham, mushroom, flour, butter, cream, egg):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Vanillafits about as well
  4. Figfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ham, mushroom, flour, butter, cream, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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