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Lobster Croquettes

A fried appetizer made from lobster meat mixed with breadcrumbs, spices, and butter, shaped into balls and coated in egg and breadcrumbs.

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

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 ↓

Lobster Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Pound the lobster meat until the dark and light meat and coral are well mixed.

  2. Combine with the fine bread crumbs, black pepper, coarse sea salt, and cayenne pepper.

  3. Add melted butter, adjusting if the mixture is dry.

Shape and coat

  1. Form the mixture into egg-shaped or round balls.

  2. Roll each ball in beaten egg, then coat with fine bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes in boiling lard 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  4. Lobster + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together909 recipes

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

  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

Lobster meat
Provides the main flavor and the bulk of the filling.
Fine bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and bind the mixture so it holds its shape.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the filling moist and tender.
Egg
Binds the mixture and helps the bread crumb coating adhere.

The step that matters

Adjusting the moisture of the filling. If the mixture is too dry, the croquettes will crack and fall apart; if too wet, they will be soft and hard to shape. Adding butter gradually lets you reach a firm, moldable texture before shaping.

“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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