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Lobster Croquettes

A fried appetizer of finely chopped lobster mixed with seasonings, breadcrumbs, and cream, shaped into croquettes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Lobster Croquettes

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 ↓

Lobster Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped lobster with pepper, salt, bread crumbs, and parsley.

  2. Moisten the mixture with cream and add the butter.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into small croquettes using your hands.

  2. Dip each croquette in the beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in hot oil 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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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. Pepper + parsleytop 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 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

Lobster
Provides the main flavour and the protein that forms the croquette filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the mixture body so it holds its shape.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling tender rather than dry.
Egg
Binds the coating so the bread crumbs adhere and help the croquettes hold together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the filling.

The step that matters

Frying in hot oil. If the oil is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb excess oil and turn greasy before the coating browns. Hot oil quickly sets the crust and browns the surface while the filling heats through.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, pepper, bread, cream, butter, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, pepper, bread, cream, butter, 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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