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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes made with boiled chicken, calves' brains, egg, breadcrumbs, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,958 recipes. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the chicken until tender, then let it cool.

  2. Pick the chicken into pieces and chop finely.

  3. Prepare the calves' brains by cleaning and chopping them.

  4. Mix the chicken and brains together, season with salt and pepper.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes, dip in beaten egg, and coat with breadcrumbs.

  2. Fry in hot oil 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. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  2. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

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

Pepper and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 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

Chicken
Forms the bulk of the filling, providing the main body and savory flavor of the croquettes.
Calves' brains
Adds richness and a soft, creamy texture to the filling.
Egg
Binds the shaped croquettes and helps the breadcrumb coating adhere.
Breadcrumbs
Forms a crisp outer crust that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. If the oil is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb excess oil and turn greasy, while the coating may not set quickly enough to hold the filling together. Frying at a proper temperature sets the crust fast and browns it evenly.

“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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