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Hare, Croquettes of

A fried croquette made with cooked hare, egg yolks, brown sauce, and spices.

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 ↓

Hare, Croquettes of

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Prepare the brown sauce as directed.

  2. Add the egg yolks and stir over low heat until thickened.

  3. Mix in the hare, cloves, salt, and pepper until well combined.

  4. Allow the mixture to cool, then shape it into cork-shaped pieces.

Coat and fry

  1. Coat each piece with egg and bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot fat until nicely browned, about 4 to 5 minutes.

  3. Drain well and serve garnished with crisply 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. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  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

Hare
Provides the main meat flavour and body of the filling.
Egg yolks
Thicken the sauce as they set and bind the filling together.
Brown sauce
Adds moisture and savoury depth so the filling holds together.
Egg
Forms a coating that helps bread crumbs stick and brown in the fat.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Fry in hot fat until nicely browned. If the fat is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy before it crisps. Hot fat sets the crumb coating quickly, keeping the croquettes crisp outside and the filling moist inside.

Swap the clove

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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