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Fried Frog Legs

Fried frog legs coated in cracker crumbs and served with sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fried Frog Legs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Skin the frog legs.

  2. Dip the legs in cracker crumbs seasoned with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Dip in beaten egg and coat with cracker crumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Place in a frying basket and immerse in smoking hot fat for one minute.

  2. Drain and serve with cream sauce, mushroom sauce, or drawn butter 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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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 + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Pepper and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Frog legs
Provide the main protein that is cooked through during the brief frying.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating that protects the meat while it fries.
Egg
Acts as a glue, helping the cracker crumbs stick to the legs.

The step that matters

Frying in smoking hot fat for one minute. The fat must be very hot so the coating crisps quickly before the meat overcooks. If the fat is not hot enough, the crumbs absorb oil and turn greasy and soggy.

“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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