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A fried croquette made from diced sweetbread and mushrooms coated in egg and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Sweetbreads, Croquettes of

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Mix the sweetbread and mushrooms in a bowl.

  2. Stir the mixture into the thick white sauce over gentle heat.

  3. Once combined, pour the mixture onto a dish and let it cool completely.

  4. Divide the mixture into equal portions and shape them into balls or corks.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each ball in the beaten egg mixed with pepper, salt, and oil.

  2. Roll the balls in bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in hot fat until crisp and lightly browned.

  4. Drain on paper towels and serve on a hot napkin, 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. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbread
Provides the main meaty filling that gives the croquettes their body and flavor.
Thick white sauce
Binds the filling together and keeps it moist and creamy inside.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and savory, earthy flavor to the filling.
Egg
Coats the balls so the bread crumbs stick and the outside sets when fried.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool completely before shaping. A warm, loose filling will not hold its shape and can split or leak during coating and frying. Chilling firms the starch-thickened white sauce so the balls stay intact in the hot fat.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, sauce, egg, pepper, 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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