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Lobster Croquettes

A savory dish of lobster, mushrooms, and eggs formed into croquettes and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Lobster Croquettes

Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Lobster Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped onion and cook for 5 minutes without browning.

  3. Stir in the flour and cook for 3 minutes.

  4. Add the water and cook until smooth.

  5. Mix in the chopped mushrooms, lobster, dry mustard, parsley, salt, and pepper; cook for 10 minutes.

  6. Remove from heat and stir in the egg yolks, egg white, and cream. Mix thoroughly and let cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Once cool, shape the mixture into croquettes and fry in hot oil.

  2. Serve with white sauce if desired.

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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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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster
Provides the main flavor and the body of the croquette filling.
Flour
Thickens the water and butter into a smooth binding paste.
Egg yolks
Bind the filling and help it set firm when cooked.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy flavor to the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and carries the flavor of the onion.

The step that matters

Let the filling cool fully before shaping. A warm, loose mixture will not hold its shape and can split or fall apart in hot oil. Cooling lets the starch-thickened filling firm up so the croquettes keep their form while frying.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, mushroom, lobster, mustard, parsley, pepper):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, mushroom, lobster, mustard, parsley, pepper. 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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