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Beef Croquettes

Beef croquettes are fried beef patties coated in breadcrumbs, served with sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Beef Croquettes

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 ↓

Beef Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove all fat and gristle from the cold roast beef or steak.

  2. Chop the beef finely and mix in parsley, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and Brown Sauce.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into cone shapes.

  2. Dip each croquette in breadcrumbs, then in the beaten egg, and again in breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in deep hot oil until golden brown.

  2. Serve with Brown, Tomato, or Creole Sauce.

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

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

  2. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Beef + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,866 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,693 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Roast beef or steak
Provides the main body and savoury meat flavour of the croquettes.
Brown sauce
Binds the chopped meat so it holds its cone shape.
Egg
Binds the breadcrumb coating so it sticks and crisps around the filling.
Breadcrumbs
Forms a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Frying in deep hot oil until golden brown. If the oil is not hot enough, croquettes absorb oil and turn greasy before the coating browns. Too hot and the outside browns before the cold filling heats through.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, sauce, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, sauce, 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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