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Egg Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Miss Helen Sloneker.

  2. Take 6 eggs boiled hard, 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon of butter, 2 tablespoons of flour, 1 tablespoon chopped parlsey, 1 teaspoon

  3. 106 Entrees.

  4. onion juice, I teaspoon salt, a dash of pepper. Boil tog-ether; then let stand on ice till cold. Shape into cylinders. Roll in egg and cracker crumbs, and fry in hot lard.

  5. SWEETBREAD CROQUETTES No. i.

  6. Mrs. E. S. Griffis.

  7. One pair sweetbreads, parboiled. Break in small pieces. y2 can of mushrooms, chopped, i cup of warm, boiled rice. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and moisten with cream sauce. When cool, shape in croquettes and roll in eggs and bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat.

  8. Cream Sauce.

  9. i tablespoon of melted but- i cup of hot milk, added

  10. ter. gradually.

  11. i tablespoon of cornstarch. Season to taste.

  12. SWEETBREAD CROQUETTES No. 2.

  13. Mrs. H. L. Scott.

  14. 1 pint cooked and chopped ½ teaspoon chopped parsley.

  15. sweetbreads. % pint cream.

  16. 2 tablespoons butter. A dust of nutmeg.

  17. Mix the salt, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, and lemon juice with the mushrooms and sweetbreads, and set aside to season while making a white sauce with the butter, flour, and cream. Add the meat to the sauce, and lastly the beaten egg. Set away to cool or stiffen for two or three hours ; then shape, crumb, and fry in deep fat. Serve with cream sauce.

  18. SWEETBREAD CROQUETTES No. 3.

  19. Mrs. J. W. Pryor, Lexington, Ky.

  20. i)/2 lbs. sweetbreads. 1 cup toasted breadcrumbs.

  21. 1 tray of brains. t egg.

  22. Plunge sweetbreads into cold water for an hour; then par- boil. When cold, separate and pick apart. Parboil brains, mix

  23. Entrees. 107

  24. with bread crumbs, and moisten with 3 or 4 tablespoons of water in which the sweetbreads were boiled ; season with white pepper, salt, nutmeg, and chopped parsley. Add the whole egg, and then mix in the sweetbreads. Set away to get thoroughly cold. Mold, roll in egg and cracker crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve writh rich mushroom sauce.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

893Calories
35 gProtein
32 gFat
115 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Eggs1 large egg (50g)78
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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

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

  2. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  5. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, flour, egg, lemon, pepper, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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