Name: Shad’s-Roe Croquettes
Ingredients: Shad's roe mixture; 2 eggs, beaten; finely grated breadcrumbs; clarified fat or lard for frying; fried parsley for garnish

Why it works: Roe and egg work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 243 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Shad’s-Roe Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Shape the mixture into small, miniature Shad's roe-like forms.
Dip each shaped croquette in the beaten eggs.
Roll the croquettes in the breadcrumbs to coat them well.
Heat the clarified fat or lard in a frying pan until blue smoke rises.
Fry the croquettes for 2-3 minutes until lightly browned.
Remove the croquettes with a slotted spoon and drain on paper.
Arrange the croquettes on a hot dish lined with ornamental paper 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.

Roe + eggtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together243 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,765 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Roe + parsleytop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together259 recipes

Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).