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Chicken or Veal Croquettes

A fried croquette made from boiled chicken or veal, butter, flour, spices, egg, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley 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 ↓

Chicken or Veal Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the chicken or veal until tender.

  2. Reserve the cooking liquid.

  3. In a pan, melt the butter and add flour, pepper, salt, parsley, and onion.

  4. Stir in the minced chicken or veal and the beaten egg.

Shape and fry

  1. Allow the mixture to cool, then mold into croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in egg and coat with bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in hot lard 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.

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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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken or veal
Forms the bulk of the filling, giving the croquettes their savoury body.
Butter
Enriches the filling and adds richness to the mixture.
Flour
Thickens the butter and binds the filling so it holds its shape.
Egg
Binds the filling and, dipped around the outside, helps the bread crumbs stick.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, soft filling is too loose to hold its shape and can split or slump in the hot lard. Cooling firms it so each croquette keeps a neat form while frying.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, flour, pepper, parsley, egg, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, flour, pepper, parsley, egg, bread. 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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