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Nut Croquettes

A fried snack made from nuts, breadcrumbs, eggs, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Nut Croquettes

Why it works: Nuts and milk work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 982 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Nut Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped nuts, breadcrumbs, eggs, milk, salt, and pepper until well combined.

  2. Shape the mixture into small croquettes.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Fry the croquettes until golden brown on all sides.

  3. Drain on paper towels before serving.

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. Nuts + milktop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together982 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  3. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Nuts + eggtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,624 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Nuts + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together187 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Nuts
Provide the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold its shape.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and help it set when cooked.
Milk
Adds moisture so the mixture is soft enough to shape.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes until golden brown on all sides. Frying over medium heat browns the surface through the Maillard reaction while the egg sets the interior. Turning them evenly keeps the coating crisp and prevents one side from burning before the centre is hot.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Peasfits better
  3. Cocoafits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, pepper. 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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