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Rice Croquettes, with Vanilla Cream Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Rice Croquettes, with Vanilla Cream Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil rice in boiling water with salt until tender; drain.

  2. Combine rice with milk, lemon rind or cinnamon, and sugar; boil for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  3. Remove from heat, stir in egg yolks one at a time, then return to heat for 2 minutes.

  4. Spread rice on an oiled platter, about 1 inch thick, and let cool.

  5. Cut cooled rice into 1-inch wide and 3-inch long strips; shape into corks.

  6. Dip each piece in cracker dust, beaten egg, and then cracker dust again.

  7. Fry in hot fat until golden brown; drain on a napkin and dust with powdered sugar.

  8. For the sauce, melt butter and flour together until bubbling, then add boiling milk, sugar, and Vanilla Essence; serve immediately with croquettes.

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

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

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  3. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, sugar, egg, butter, sauce, flour):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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

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