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Kidney rissoles are thinly sliced ox kidney and boiled ham wrapped in puff pastry, fried until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley 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 ↓

Kidney, Rissoles of

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Slice the ox kidney thinly and weigh it.

  2. Mince the kidney and boiled ham very finely.

  3. Season the mixture with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  4. Moisten the mixture with the beaten egg yolk.

Wrap and fry

  1. Roll out the puff pastry to ⅛ inch thick.

  2. Divide the meat mixture into small balls and wrap each in pastry.

  3. Fry the rissoles in hot fat until brightly browned, about 3-4 minutes.

  4. Serve hot, garnished with parsley.

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

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

  2. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

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

  3. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  4. Ham + peppertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,058 recipes

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

  5. Ham + parsleytop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,249 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

Ox kidney
Forms the savoury meaty base of the filling.
Boiled ham
Adds savoury, salty flavour and body to the meat filling.
Egg yolk
Binds the minced meat together and moistens it.
Puff pastry
Forms a flaky, crisp outer shell that browns in the hot fat.

The step that matters

Fry in hot fat until brightly browned. The fat must be hot enough for the pastry to brown and crisp quickly. If it is too cool, the pastry absorbs grease and turns soggy before the browning develops, and the filling may not heat through in the short time.

“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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