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Roe Croquettes

A fried roll made from shad roe, mashed potato, butter, and seasonings, coated in egg and cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper 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 ↓

Roe Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the roe

  1. Parboil the shad roes.

  2. Cool the roes.

  3. Rub the roes into a loose, granulated mass.

Make the mixture

  1. Combine the roes, mashed potato, drawn butter, and seasonings in a saucepan.

  2. Heat the mixture over low heat, stirring until hot.

  3. Once almost cool, shape into short rolls.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each roll in beaten egg.

  2. Coat each roll with cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry the rolls in hot dripping until golden brown.

  4. Drain the fried rolls on a heated colander.

Serve

  1. Serve the rolls on a hot dish.

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.

Explore the science

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Roe + anchovytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together65 recipes

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

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Egg + anchovytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,330 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Roes of shad
Forms the main body of the croquette, providing rich flavor and a granular texture.
Mashed potato
Adds starch and body, helping the mixture hold together when shaped.
Drawn butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the filling moist and tender.
Raw egg
Binds the mixture so the rolls hold their shape while cooking.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden, browned crust when fried.

The step that matters

Cool before shaping. The mixture must be almost cool before shaping, because a hot, soft filling will be too loose to hold its shape and may break apart in the hot dripping.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (roe, butter, egg, parsley, pepper, anchovy):

  1. Chivefits about as well
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against roe, butter, egg, parsley, pepper, anchovy. 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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