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Veal Croquettes - Parsley Garnished

Veal croquettes are small, fried meat cakes seasoned with parsley, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper 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 ↓

Veal Croquettes - Parsley Garnished

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cook the veal until tender, then chop finely.

  2. Mix the chopped veal with parsley, salt, and pepper.

  3. Form the mixture into small croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in beaten eggs, then coat with breadcrumbs.

  2. Fry in butter until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve garnished with parsley.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Veal + parsleytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,766 recipes

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

  5. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 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

Veal
Forms the main body of the croquettes, giving them a savory, meaty filling.
Eggs
Beaten eggs bind the coating so the breadcrumbs adhere to each croquette.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp outer crust that browns during frying.
Butter
Conducts heat in the frying pan and promotes browning and a golden color.

The step that matters

Fry in butter until golden brown. Butter browns at a fairly low temperature and can burn before the crust is cooked through. Medium heat and watching the color help the coating brown evenly while the filling heats through.

“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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