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Croquettes Op Fowl

Croquettes made from cold roast chicken, truffles, and Allemande sauce, coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley 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 ↓

Croquettes Op Fowl

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the chicken into tiny square portions.

  2. Weigh the chicken and use the same amount of truffles.

  3. Mix the chicken and truffles into a stiff Allemande sauce.

  4. Shape the mixture into equal-sized pieces or balls.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each piece in beaten eggs mixed with oil, salt, and pepper, then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot oil until golden brown and crisp.

  3. Drain on a cloth to remove excess grease and sprinkle with salt.

Serve

  1. Arrange on a napkin in a dish and garnish with fried parsley.

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 + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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

  4. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the bulk of the filling, providing the main body of each croquette.
Allemande sauce
Binds the chicken and truffles into a stiff mixture that holds its shape when formed.
Truffles
Add a strong aroma and earthy flavour to the filling.
Eggs
Bind the coating so the bread crumbs adhere evenly to each piece.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Make the filling stiff before shaping. If the Allemande sauce mixture is too loose, the pieces will not hold their shape and may break apart or leak during coating and frying. A firm, cooled mixture keeps the croquettes intact.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, truffle, sauce, bread, egg, pepper):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Tarragonfits about as well
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Garlicfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, truffle, sauce, bread, egg, pepper. 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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