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Chicken Croquettes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,810 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the milk or chicken stock.

  2. In a saucepan, cook butter and flour together until smooth and frothy.

  3. Gradually add the milk, stirring to make a stiff white sauce.

  4. Combine the sauce with the shredded chicken, making the mixture slightly thinner than you can handle.

  5. Add the seasonings and mix thoroughly.

  6. Spread the mixture on a platter and let it cool.

  7. Beat the eggs until smooth on a plate.

  8. Sprinkle bread crumbs on a board.

  9. Take a heaping teaspoon of the mixture and form it into a smooth ball.

  10. Roll the ball in the bread crumbs, pressing it into shape.

  11. Dip the croquette in the beaten eggs, pouring the eggs over it with a spoon.

  12. Roll the croquette in the crumbs again.

  13. Fry in hot lard 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.

Explore the science

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. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, milk, flour, celery, pepper, onion, parsley):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, milk, flour, celery, pepper, onion, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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