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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are fried balls of seasoned chicken and cream coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon 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 ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped chicken with salt, pepper, butter, beaten egg, and cream.

  2. Cover a molding board with cracker crumbs.

  3. Form the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll them in the crumbs, coating with more beaten egg.

  2. Heat oil in a frying pan.

  3. Fry the croquettes in a basket 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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Chicken + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,092 recipes

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

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Forms the bulk of the croquettes and provides the main flavor.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and helps the crumb coating adhere.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the filling.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer coating when fried.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes in a basket until golden brown. Frying in hot oil browns the crumb coating quickly while the moist filling heats through. Oil that is too cool lets the croquettes soak up grease and fall apart, so the coating should be sealed before the filling overheats.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Grapefits less well
  4. Mangofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, butter, egg, cream. 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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