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Croquettes of Chicken

A fried ball of seasoned chicken and ham mixed with cream, eggs, and lemon, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Croquettes of Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Finely chop the chicken and ham and place them in a saucepan.

  2. Add the cream, egg yolks, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Cook until the mixture binds together.

  3. Transfer the mixture to a plate and let it cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Once cooled, shape the mixture into balls.

  2. Dip each ball in the beaten egg, then coat with gluten breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in boiling oil until golden brown.

  2. Drain on paper towels and serve 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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Chicken + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 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

Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and enrich it as it cooks, helping it set into a firm filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling soft inside the coating.
Cooked chicken or veal
Forms the main body of the filling, giving the croquettes their savory flavor.
Cooked ham
Adds salty, savory flavor to the filling.
Gluten breadcrumbs
Form a crisp outer crust that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Cook the filling until it binds together. The mixture must be cooked enough for the egg yolks to set and thicken it; if it stays loose, the balls will not hold their shape and may break open in the oil.

“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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