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Lobstek Croquettes

A fried croquette made with minced lobster, cream, milk, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 ↓

Lobstek Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Scald the milk and cream with the onion and parsley.

  2. Add the corn starch and butter, and cook for 5 more minutes.

  3. Stir in the lobster, salt, and cayenne pepper, then cool the mixture in the refrigerator.

Shape and fry

  1. Once cold, shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip the croquettes in beaten eggs, then coat with bread crumbs.

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

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

  2. Lobster + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

  4. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  5. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 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 body of the croquette filling.
Corn starch
Thickens the milk and cream into a firm mixture that holds its shape when chilled.
Eggs
Bind the coating so the bread crumbs stick and form a crisp shell.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the sauce base.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture fully before shaping. The thickened filling must be cold and firm to hold its shape. If shaped while warm, the soft starch paste will slump and may break apart in the egg and crumb coating.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, corn, cream, milk, parsley, egg, pepper):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, corn, cream, milk, parsley, egg, pepper. 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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