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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of seasoned chicken mixed with cream, flour, and eggs, formed into croquettes and breaded.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon 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 ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Boil the cream or chicken stock in a saucepan.

  2. In a separate bowl, mix the flour and butter, then stir into the boiling cream.

  3. Add the chopped chicken, salt, and pepper; boil for 2 minutes.

  4. Remove from heat and stir in 2 beaten eggs; let cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Once cool, shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Roll each croquette in the remaining beaten egg and breadcrumbs.

  3. 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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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
Provides the main body and savory flavor of the filling.
Flour
Thickens the cream with butter to bind the filling so it holds its shape.
Eggs
Bind the mixture as they set and give the beaten coating something to cling to.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the sauce, softening texture and aiding browning.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp outer crust that browns when fried.
Cream or chicken stock
Forms the liquid base that the flour thickens into a smooth binding sauce.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, loose filling is too soft to hold its shape and can slump or split, so it needs to cool and firm up before it is shaped and coated.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, cream, flour, egg, lemon, butter):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, cream, flour, egg, lemon, butter. 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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