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Chicken Croquettes

A fried mixture of boiled chicken and brains, seasoned with parsley, lemon, and butter, coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon 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 ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the boiled chicken and brains until very fine.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, parsley, lemon juice, and lemon rind.

  3. Add butter and mix well. If the mixture is too stiff, add a little cream.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Heat lard in a deep pan until boiling hot.

  3. Dip each croquette in cracker crumbs and 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.

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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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  5. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the bulk of the filling, giving the croquettes their body and savoury flavour.
Brains
Adds richness and a soft, creamy texture to the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and moisture, keeping the filling tender and rich.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Frying in boiling-hot lard. Lard must be very hot before the croquettes go in. A hot fat seals the crumb coating quickly, so the outside browns and crisps before the soft filling absorbs grease and falls apart.

“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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