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Chicken Croquets

Chicken croquettes are fried cakes made from chopped chicken, egg, butter, crackers, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Chicken Croquets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine chopped chicken, egg, butter, powdered crackers, salt, and pepper in a bowl.

  2. Form the mixture into flat cakes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each cake in raw egg, then coat with cracker crumbs.

  2. Fry the cakes in hot oil until golden brown.

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. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold chicken
Forms the bulk of the croquette, giving it its main body and savory flavor.
Egg
Binds the chicken and crackers together so the cakes hold their shape.
Powdered crackers
Absorb moisture and help bind the mixture, giving the cakes a firmer texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing flavor and a tender texture to the filling.

The step that matters

Fry the cakes in hot oil until golden brown. If the oil is not hot enough, the coated cakes absorb excess oil and turn greasy, while the coating browns slowly. Hot oil sets the crumb crust quickly, keeping the inside moist and the outside crisp.

“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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