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Mock Chicken Croquettes

Croquettes of nutmeato, mashed potato and gluten, seasoned with sage and onion, shaped, coated and baked to imitate chicken.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mock Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the mixture

  1. Mix the sieved hard-boiled eggs with the zwieola until smooth.

  2. Add the nutmeato, mashed potato, gluten, sage, onion, and salt; mix thoroughly.

  3. Take a large tablespoonful of the mixture and shape it into cylinder-shaped croquettes.

Coat and bake

  1. Roll each croquette in a beaten egg, then in gluten or fine cracker crumbs.

  2. Bake on well-oiled baking sheets at 400°F (200°C) for 1 hour or until golden.

Serve

  1. Serve garnished with sprigs of parsley on lettuce leaves.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Potato + sagetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together386 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Sage + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

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

  5. Sage + eggtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,100 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Nutmeato
Provides the main chopped body and chew of the croquettes.
Mashed potato
Adds moisture and softness and helps the mixture hold its shape.
Gluten
Binds the mixture and gives it a firmer, chewier structure when cooked.
Hard-boiled eggs
Bind the mixture and set as it cooks, helping the croquettes hold together.
Raw egg
Helps the crumb coating stick and encourages browning in the oven.

The step that matters

Shaping the croquettes. The mixture must be cohesive enough to hold its cylinder shape. If it is too wet it may slump and spread in the oven, and if it is too dry it may crumble and crack.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, egg. 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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