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Sweet-bread Croquettes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,765 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Sweet-bread Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour the strong stock or cream into a pan and mix well.

  2. Add the diced ingredients and heat thoroughly over the fire.

  3. Remove from heat and stir in the beaten egg yolks, returning to the fire briefly to set without boiling.

  4. Once cool, form the mixture into croquettes.

  5. Roll each croquette in cracker crumbs, then in egg, and again in cracker crumbs.

  6. Fry the croquettes in boiling lard until golden brown.

  7. Garnish with parsley or celery before serving.

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

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

  2. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Cream + parsleytop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,392 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. White pepperfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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