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Lobster Croquettes

Lobster croquettes are fried balls of seasoned lobster mixed with breadcrumbs and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Lobster Croquettes

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Lobster Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the lobster finely and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Mix the lobster with ¼ cup of bread crumbs.

  3. Form the mixture into balls using 2 tablespoons of melted butter.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each ball in the beaten egg, then roll in biscuit crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together841 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Bread + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster
Provides the main flavor and the bulk of the filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold together as a binder.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture to the filling, helping it bind and stay tender.
Egg
Binds the coating so the biscuit crumbs stick to each ball.
Biscuit crumbs
Form a crisp outer crust that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes in lard until golden brown. The coating must be sealed and browned in hot fat. If the fat is not hot enough, the crumbs absorb grease and the croquettes turn heavy and soggy, and the lobster inside may not heat through evenly.

“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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