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Fried Frog Legs

Fried frog legs coated in cracker crumbs and served with sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21,449 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Fried Frog Legs

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 375°F (190°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Skin the frog legs.

  2. Dip the legs in cracker crumbs seasoned with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Dip in beaten egg and coat with cracker crumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Place in a frying basket and immerse in hot fat at 375°F (190°C) for one minute.

  2. Drain and serve with cream or mushroom sauce or drawn butter sauce.

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 + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Pepper + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Pepper and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 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

Frog legs
Provide the main protein that the coating surrounds and cooks through.
Egg
Binds the cracker crumbs to the legs so the coating adheres during frying.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat.

The step that matters

Frying in hot fat. The fat must be hot enough to crisp the coating quickly. If it is too cool, the crumbs absorb grease and turn soggy, while the legs can overcook if left too long.

“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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