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Chicken Croquettes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the cold chicken and mushrooms very finely.

  2. Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour, and gradually add the stock, stirring until it boils.

  3. Add the cream, season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and cook briskly for 2 minutes.

  4. Remove from heat, stir in the chopped chicken and mushrooms, and pour onto a plate to cool.

  5. Once cool, divide into equal parts and shape into pear-like forms.

  6. Beat the eggs well for coating.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

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

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

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  5. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, cream, pepper, egg, bread, butter):

  1. Nutmegthe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Parsleyfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, cream, pepper, egg, bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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