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Corned Beef Croquetts

A fried croquette made from minced corned beef, onion, pepper, parsley, cream sauce, and bread crumbs, served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Corned Beef Croquetts

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mince the corned beef.

  2. Add the chopped onion, pepper, parsley, cream sauce, and bread crumbs; mix well.

  3. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then coat with additional bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with tomato sauce.

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. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  3. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 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

Corned beef
Provides the main meaty body and savory flavor of the croquettes.
Cream sauce
Adds moisture and binds the mixture so it holds its shape.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the mixture body for shaping.
Egg
Binds the coating so the crumbs stick and help the croquettes hold together.

The step that matters

Coating and frying the croquettes. The egg wash and crumb coating must fully cover each croquette, or the crumbs can fall off and the filling can leak into the oil. Frying at a steady heat browns the crust before the inside dries out.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, parsley, cream, sauce, bread, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, parsley, cream, sauce, bread, 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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