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Chicken or Rabbit Kromeskies

A fried roll of minced chicken or rabbit mixed with lemon, bacon, and spices, served with mashed potatoes or peas.

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 ↓

Chicken or Rabbit Kromeskies

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the chicken or rabbit into very small pieces and pound the pieces in a mortar.

  2. Mix in the white sauce, grated lemon zest, lemon juice, pepper, and salt.

Wrap and coat

  1. Cut the bacon into thin strips and fill the strips with the mixture.

  2. Roll the filled strips up and skewer the rolled strips.

  3. Make a thin batter with the egg and flour, then dip the kromeskies in the batter.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the kromeskies in hot lard until golden brown.

  2. Serve on a platter of mashed potatoes or with tinned peas.

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. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  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. Lemon + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour 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

Chicken or rabbit
Provides the savoury meat filling that the bacon wraps around.
White sauce
Binds the pounded meat into a moist, cohesive filling.
Bacon
Wraps the filling and crisps during frying, adding fat and savour.
Egg
Combines with the flour to form a thin batter that sets and browns when fried.
Lemon
Adds acidity and aroma that brighten the rich meat filling.

The step that matters

Fry the kromeskies in hot lard until golden brown. The thin batter sets and browns quickly in hot fat, so the lard must be hot enough to crisp the coating before the filling overcooks or the batter absorbs excess grease.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Raisinfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, egg, flour, 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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