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Veal Croquettes

Veal croquettes are small, breaded veal patties baked or fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Veal Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the mixture

  1. Chop the veal finely and mix with bread crumbs.

  2. Add one beaten egg to the mixture to bind it together.

  3. If needed, add a little milk, cream, or gravy to moisten.

  4. Season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste.

Shape and coat

  1. Mould the mixture into pear shapes.

  2. Roll each croquette in egg and then in cracker crumbs.

Bake or fry

  1. Place the croquettes in a buttered baking pan.

  2. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown on each side, or fry in hot drippings.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Veal
Forms the main body of the croquette, giving it savoury flavour and a meaty bite.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the chopped veal hold together in shape.
Egg
Binds the mixture together so the croquettes hold their shape while cooking.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust that browns during baking or frying.

The step that matters

Baking or frying until golden on each side. Coated croquettes can burn on the outside before the centre is heated through, and turning them lets the crust brown evenly.

“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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