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Hare Croquettes

Hare croquettes are fried balls of minced hare mixed with bread crumbs, eggs, and seasoning, served with gravy and red currant jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and red currant work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 84 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Hare Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the croquettes

  1. Mince the hare, omitting some of the gravy.

  2. Mix in half the quantity of bread crumbs and seasoning.

  3. Bind the mixture with 1 egg, reserving the other egg for coating.

  4. Form the mixture into balls, then coat with the reserved egg and roll in bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in hot fat until golden brown.

  2. Prepare gravy using the reserved hare gravy, adding stock if necessary.

  3. Serve the croquettes with the gravy and red currant jelly.

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. Bread + red curranttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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

  3. Egg + red curranttop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together345 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the minced hare mixture and give the coating a surface that helps crumbs stick.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the mixture body, and form a crisp outer coating when fried.
Hare
Provides the main meat and flavour of the croquettes.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes in hot fat until golden brown. If the fat is not hot enough, the coated croquettes absorb grease and turn soggy before a crisp, browned crust forms. Enough hot fat seals the outside quickly, helping the crumb coating hold together and brown evenly.

Swap the red currant

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

  1. Datesfits better
  2. Pumpkinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread. 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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