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Bread Croquettes

Bread croquettes are balls or rolls made from a mixture of milk, egg, salt, bread crumbs, butter, and flour, baked and served as garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Evora Bucknum Perkins · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Bread Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Heat a pan, add butter, but do not brown it.

  2. Add flour and stir until smooth.

  3. Pour milk into the hot mixture and stir until smooth.

Shape and bake

  1. Remove from heat, add salt, egg, and enough bread crumbs to shape.

  2. Cool the mixture.

  3. Shape into balls or rolls.

  4. Bake until golden.

  5. Optionally, flavor the mixture with sweet herbs or minced onion.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

682Calories
27 gProtein
14 gFat
108 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Flour (in the method)
Thickens the butter and milk into a smooth, stiff base that holds the mixture together.
Milk
Forms with the flour a thick white sauce that gives the croquettes their moist, creamy center.
Butter (in the method)
Adds richness and a mild flavor, and is kept pale so the taste stays delicate.
Egg
Binds the mixture so it holds its shape when formed and baked.
Bread crumbs
Add body to the mixture so it can be shaped into firm balls or rolls.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture. Cooling lets the thickened sauce firm up. A mixture that is still hot and soft will be too loose to shape and may slump or burst while baking.

“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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