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Lobster Croquettes

A fried croquette made from lobster remnants, bread crumbs, butter, egg, and lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Lobster Croquettes

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Lobster Croquettes

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Pound the lobster remnants until the dark and light meat and coral are well mixed.

  2. Add bread crumbs equal to less than the amount of lobster, and season with salt and pepper.

  3. Mix in melted butter.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into round balls.

  2. Roll each ball in egg, then in fine bread crumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes in hot lard 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lobster + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Remnants of lobster
Provides the main flavor and protein that gives the croquettes their body.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and bind the lobster so the filling holds its shape.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the filling tender and moist.
Egg
Coats the balls so the fine crumbs adhere and form a crisp shell.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
Hot lard
Conducts heat to brown the crumb coating and crisp the outside quickly.

The step that matters

Frying in hot lard until golden brown. If the lard is not hot enough, the coating absorbs fat and becomes greasy before it browns, while the filling may heat unevenly. Hot fat sets the crumb crust fast, sealing in moisture.

“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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