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Rissoles of Turkey or Chicken

A savory pastry-wrapped meat patty made with turkey or chicken, ham or tongue, breadcrumbs, onion, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 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 ↓

Rissoles of Turkey or Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Remove the meat from the bones and skin.

  2. Add finely chopped ham or tongue, bread crumbs, butter, boiled onion, pepper, and salt.

  3. Bind the mixture with beaten eggs.

Wrap and fry

  1. Roll out puff pastry thinly and cut into squares.

  2. Place a teaspoon of the mixture in the center of each square.

  3. Fold the pastry over and seal the edges with water.

  4. Dip each rissole in bread crumbs.

  5. Fry in hot lard until golden brown.

  6. Garnish with crispy parsley before serving.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the filling together so it holds its shape when fried.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture in the filling and give a crisp, golden coating.
Puff pastry
Forms a flaky, crisp outer shell that browns when fried.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Seal the pastry edges. If the edges are not sealed well with water, the filling can leak out during frying and the pastry may open or become greasy. A firm seal keeps the rissole intact.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, ham, bread, butter, pepper, egg, 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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