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Turkey Croquettes

A fried dish of minced turkey mixed with bread crumbs, lemon, herbs, and spices, shaped into rolls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Turkey Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mince the turkey finely.

  2. Add half the quantity of grated bread crumbs.

  3. Add the finely chopped rind of the lemon. Add the strained lemon juice.

  4. Mix in a few preserved herbs, cayenne, and salt.

  5. Blend with the beaten eggs, reserving some egg for coating.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into small rolls.

  2. Coat the rolls with egg and bread crumbs.

  3. Fry the rolls until golden brown.

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. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey
Forms the bulk of the croquettes and gives them their savoury flavour.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and form a coating that helps the rolls brown.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and add body so the mixture holds its shape.
Lemon
Adds acidity and aroma that brighten the rich turkey.

The step that matters

Blend with the beaten eggs, reserving some egg for coating.. The eggs bind the mixture so the rolls hold together in the fat. Holding back some egg for the coating gives the outside a sealed layer that browns evenly when fried.

“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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