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Crab Croquettes

A fried dish of crab meat mixed with crumbs, spices, and egg, shaped into croquettes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Crab and anchovy share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 79 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Crab Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Gently press out the juice from the crab meat and place it in a bowl.

  2. Add fine crumbs, salt, pepper, anchovy essence, egg yolks, and a little cold water. Mix until the ingredients bind together; refrigerate until needed.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into cork or cone shapes.

  2. Dip each shape in beaten egg, then coat with fine crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in hot fat 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. Crab + anchovytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Crab + meattop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Anchovy + eggtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,330 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Meat + anchovytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together335 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Crab + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together922 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Crab meat
Forms the main body of the croquettes and gives them their flavour.
Egg yolks
Bind the filling together and add richness to the mixture.
Fine crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold its shape.

The step that matters

Mix until the ingredients bind together, then chill. The filling must be firm enough to hold its shape when formed and dipped. Chilling firms the mixture and the fats in it, making the shapes easier to handle and less likely to break apart in the hot fat.

“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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