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Shad Roe Croquettes

Croquettes made from shad roe, lemon juice, heavy white sauce, egg, breadcrumbs, served with Hollandaise or cucumber sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Shad Roe Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the roe

  1. Cook the shad roe in boiling salted water with lemon juice for 20 minutes.

  2. Drain and cut the roe into fine pieces.

Make the croquettes

  1. Mix the roe with the heavy white sauce that has been cooked with the egg for 5 minutes.

  2. Season with salt and pepper.

  3. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  4. Coat the croquettes with egg and breadcrumbs.

Serve

  1. Serve with Hollandaise or cucumber sauce.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Roe + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Roe + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together243 recipes

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

  4. Roe + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together251 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

Lemon and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 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

What each ingredient does

Shad roe
Forms the main body and rich flavour of the croquettes.
Heavy white sauce
Adds moisture and binds the roe into a mixture that holds together.
Egg
Sets when heated, helping bind the mixture and giving the coating something to adhere to.
Breadcrumbs
Forms the outer coating that browns and gives a crisp exterior.

The step that matters

Cook the white sauce with the egg for 5 minutes. Heat sets the egg proteins, which binds the sauce and holds the croquettes together. If the egg is undercooked, the mixture stays loose and the croquettes may fall apart when shaped or fried.

“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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