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Green Corn Croquettes

A fried snack made from boiled corn, eggs, cream, butter, and coated in cracker meal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Green Corn Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the corn

  1. Boil the corn on the cob until tender, then remove the kernels.

  2. Season the corn with salt and pepper.

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, whip the eggs and stir in the cream and butter.

  2. Combine the corn with the egg mixture.

Shape and fry

  1. Spoon the mixture into cracker meal, shaping it into cone shapes.

  2. Fry the croquettes in 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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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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  3. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Corn
Provides the main bulk and sweet flavour of the croquettes.
Eggs
Bind the corn mixture so the croquettes hold their shape.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the mixture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture.
Cracker meal
Forms a crisp coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. The oil must be hot enough to crisp the cracker meal quickly. If the oil is too cool, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy, and the egg-bound centre may not set before the outside over-browns.

“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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