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Entree, Shad Roe Croquettes

Shad roe croquettes are small cakes made from shad roe, cream, egg yolks, and spices, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Entree, Shad Roe Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Poach the roe

  1. Wash the shad roes.

  2. Place the roes in a saucepan of boiling water with 1 teaspoon of salt. Cover the saucepan and simmer slowly for 15 minutes.

  3. Remove the saucepan from heat and let the roes cool.

  4. Remove the skin from the roes and mash the roes.

Make the binder

  1. Bring the cream to a boil in another saucepan.

  2. Rub the butter and flour together.

  3. Add the butter and flour mixture to the boiling cream and stir until thick.

  4. Remove the saucepan from heat.

  5. Mix in the egg yolks and all other ingredients. Let the mixture cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes.

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

  3. Fry the croquettes in boiling oil or fat until golden brown.

  4. Serve the croquettes with Hollandaise 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.

  1. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Cream + buttertop 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

Shad roes
Provide the main flavour and the bulk of the croquette filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the mixture once thickened.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help bind the mixture once cooled.
Flour
Thickens the cream into a stiff base that holds the croquettes together.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour and combines with the flour to form the thickener.

The step that matters

Cooling the mixture before forming. The mixture must be cool and firm enough to hold its shape. If it is still warm and soft, the croquettes will slump and may break apart when dipped and fried.

“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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