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Hominy Croquettes

A fried croquette made from hominy, milk, sugar, egg, salt, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Hominy Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Combine cold boiled hominy and milk in a bowl.

  2. Stir in sugar, beaten egg, and salt until well mixed.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then coat with fine bread crumbs.

  3. Chill on ice for at least 1 hour.

Fry

  1. Fry 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.

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).

  4. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Hominy
Forms the bulk of the croquette, giving body and a soft, starchy interior.
Milk
Adds moisture so the hominy mixture binds into a soft, moldable paste.
Egg
Binds the mixture and, as a coating, helps bread crumbs stick and set.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer crust that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Chill on ice for at least 1 hour. Chilling firms the starches and egg so the shaped croquettes hold their form and do not burst or fall apart in hot oil.

“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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