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Nut Croquettes

Walnut croquettes made with ground walnuts, milk, butter, flour, and spices, then breaded and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Nut Croquettes

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Nut Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine ground walnuts, salt, lemon juice, parsley, and cayenne pepper; mix thoroughly.

  2. In a double boiler, heat the milk.

  3. In a separate bowl, rub the butter with the flour until smooth; stir into the hot milk and cook until thickened.

  4. Season the thickened cream lightly, then mix it into the walnut mixture.

  5. Allow the mixture to cool, then form it into rolls.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each roll in bread crumbs, then in the beaten egg, and again in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes quickly in hot fat 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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Walnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together865 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

English walnuts
Provide the main body and nutty flavour of the filling.
Milk
Forms a thickened white sauce that binds the walnut mixture together.
Flour
Thickens the milk into a sauce that helps the filling hold its shape.
Butter
Adds richness and smoothness to the flour-thickened sauce.
Beaten egg
Coats the rolls so the bread crumbs adhere and brown evenly.

The step that matters

Frying the croquettes. Fry quickly in hot fat so the crumb coating browns and crisps before the cool, soft filling can soak up grease or break apart.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Chickpeafits about as well
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Pistachiofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, parsley, pepper, milk, butter, flour, egg. 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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