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Egy Croquettes

Eggy Croquettes are fried egg-coated meat patties served with a bone gravy.

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

Egy Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mince the cold meat very fine and place it in a bowl.

  2. Add the chopped onion, parsley, butter, salt, and pepper; mix well.

Coat the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs for 12 minutes, then cool in cold water and remove the shells.

  2. Moisten the meat mixture with beaten egg white and cover each egg with the mixture, about ½ inch thick.

  3. Roll the coated eggs in flour or bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in boiling oil until golden brown, then drain well.

  2. Make a gravy from the bones of the cold meat, stew it, and season to taste.

  3. Cut the croquettes lengthwise and serve with the thick sauce in the middle.

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

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

  2. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Parsley + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Cold meat
Forms the savory outer layer that wraps each egg.
Eggs
Form the centre of each croquette, becoming firm when boiled.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the meat mixture.
Beaten egg white
Binds the minced meat so it holds around the egg.
Flour or fine bread crumbs
Creates a dry coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Frying until golden brown. Hot oil browns the crumb coating quickly and seals it, so the meat layer cooks through without the coating absorbing excess oil or burning before the filling is hot.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, parsley, butter, pepper, egg, flour):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, parsley, butter, pepper, egg, flour. 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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