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Croquets of Sweetbreads

Croquets of sweetbreads are fried pastry parcels filled with sweetbread and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Croquets of Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mince the cold sweetbreads and boil them in sauce veloute until cold.

  2. Form the mixture into balls or rolls about 2 inches long.

  3. Place fried parsley in the middle of each ball or roll.

Wrap and coat

  1. Roll out a piece of thin puff pastry and enclose the sweetbread mixture in it.

  2. Brush the pastry with a beaten egg and sprinkle grated bread on top.

Fry

  1. Fry 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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  4. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + parsleytop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,693 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold sweetbreads
Form the main filling, providing the tender, rich meat texture inside the croquette.
Sauce veloute
Binds the minced sweetbreads and keeps the filling moist and cohesive.
Thin puff pastry
Forms a thin casing that becomes crisp and flaky when fried.
Beaten egg
Glues the grated bread to the pastry and promotes even browning.
Grated bread
Adds a crunchy outer crust that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Enclosing the filling in pastry. The pastry must be fully sealed around the filling, or hot fat can seep in and the filling can leak out. Fully cooled filling also holds its shape better when frying.

Swap the parsley

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, egg, bread. 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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