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Lobster Croquettes

A dish of finely minced lobster formed into balls, coated in breadcrumbs, and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Lobster Croquettes

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Lobster Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mince the lobster very fine.

  2. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt to taste.

  3. Add ½ cup melted butter and enough bread crumbs to form a mixture that can be shaped into balls.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into pear‑shaped balls using your hands.

  2. Dip each ball in the beaten egg, then roll in sifted cracker or bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in hot lard or butter 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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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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lobster + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster
Provides the main flavor and the body of the croquette filling.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture so the filling stays tender rather than dry.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and bind the mixture so it holds its shape when formed into balls.
Beaten egg
Binds the coating so the crumbs adhere and help form a crisp outer layer.

The step that matters

Frying until golden brown. The filling is already cooked, so frying mainly browns the coating. Hot fat sets the crumb crust quickly, and if the fat is too cool the balls absorb grease and turn soggy.

“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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