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Veal Croquettes with Green Peas

Veal croquettes with green peas are fried meat cakes seasoned with pepper, salt, onion juice, cayenne, thick sauce, and egg yolk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Veal Croquettes with Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mix the veal, pepper, salt, onion juice, cayenne, thick sauce, and egg yolk in the order given.

  2. Cool the mixture.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip the croquettes in breadcrumbs.

  3. Dip the croquettes in egg.

  4. Dip the croquettes again in breadcrumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes in deep fat 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.

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 + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Veal + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Onion + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pepper + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Onion and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,474 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

Chopped cooked veal
Forms the bulk of the croquette and provides the main filling flavor.
Thick sauce
Binds the chopped veal so the mixture holds its shape when shaped.
Egg yolk
Adds richness and helps bind the mixture together.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture before shaping. A warm, soft mixture cannot be shaped cleanly and may slump or crack. Cooling firms the binding sauce so the croquettes hold their form through breading and frying.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, sauce, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, sauce, 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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