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Nut Croquettes

Nut croquettes made from sweetbreads, almonds, eggs, coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Nut Croquettes

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Nut Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cook the sweetbreads and let them cool.

  2. Grind the cooled sweetbreads with the blanched almonds.

  3. Mix in the eggs until well combined.

Form and fry

  1. Form the mixture into small croquettes.

  2. Roll each croquette in bread crumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes in deep hot oil 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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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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  2. Almond + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together858 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

  3. Egg + almondtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,645 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

Sweetbreads
Provide the main body and savoury meaty base of the croquettes.
Eggs
Bind the ground mixture so the croquettes hold their shape.
Blanched almonds
Add body, richness and a nutty flavour to the filling.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Frying in deep hot oil. The oil must be hot enough to brown the crumb coating quickly; if it is too cool, the croquettes absorb oil, turn greasy and may fall apart before the coating sets.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Peasfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Lima beansfits about as well
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread. 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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