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Pastry Rissoles

A pastry-wrapped meat filling fried until golden brown.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Pastry Rissoles

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pastry and filling

  1. Make the pastry and roll it out thinly, cutting it into 4-inch squares.

  2. Mince the meat, season it, and mix with the white sauce.

  3. Roll the mixture into sausage shapes using floured hands.

Wrap and coat

  1. Wrap each sausage in a piece of pastry and seal the edges well.

  2. Brush the wrapped sausages with beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in deep fat until golden brown and serve hot or cold.

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. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes
  4. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

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

  5. Flour + meattop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,529 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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

Pastry flour
Forms the thin pastry casing that encloses the filling.
White sauce
Binds the minced meat so it holds together in sausage shapes.
Egg
Beaten egg coats the pastry, helping the breadcrumbs stick and brown.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer coating when fried.

The step that matters

Seal the edges of the pastry. If the pastry is not sealed well, the filling can leak into the hot fat during frying, leaving the rissoles greasy and misshapen.

“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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