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Cot Marmalade

Rice croquettes filled with apricot marmalade and optionally fruit, coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Cot Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare plain rice for croquettes.

Fill and coat

  1. Use a wooden spoon to make a hole in the croquette.

  2. Fill the hole with apricot marmalade and close it up with rice.

  3. Optionally, add pieces of apple or other fruit to the filling.

  4. Coat the croquettes with bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes 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. Apricot + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Rice + apricottop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together353 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  3. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Rice + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

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

  5. Bread + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 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

Cooked rice
Forms the outer shell that holds the filling together.
Apricot marmalade
Provides sweetness and fruity flavour inside the croquette.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, bread, apple):

  1. Figfits about as well
  2. Pearfits about as well
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, bread, apple. 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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