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Shad Roe Croquettes

Shad roe croquettes are small fried cakes made with shad roe, croquette sauce, egg yolks, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Shad Roe Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the shad roe into pieces.

Make and shape the croquettes

  1. In a bowl, combine the roe with salt, pepper, cayenne, croquette sauce, parsley, and egg yolks.

  2. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Fry

  1. Dip the croquettes in egg and fry 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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Sauce + roetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + roetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together243 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Shad roe
Provides the main flavor and the delicate, flaky body of the croquettes.
Croquette sauce
Binds the roe into a moist mixture that holds its shape when shaped.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help bind the mixture so it holds together.
Eggs
Coat the croquettes so they brown evenly when fried.

The step that matters

Shaping and frying the croquettes. The mixture is soft and moist, so it can fall apart if handled roughly or left loose. Keeping the shapes firm and fully coated in egg helps them hold together in hot fat and brown evenly instead of breaking or absorbing excess oil.

“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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