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Rice Croquettes

Rice croquettes made with rice, cheese, salt, butter, minced chicken or turkey, oysters, parsley, nutmeg, lemon rind, cream, egg, coated in cracker, fried in lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Boil the rice until very soft.

  2. Mix the cheese, salt, and enough butter to moisten the rice.

Make the filling

  1. Add the minced chicken or turkey, minced oysters, parsley, nutmeg, and lemon rind; mix well and moisten with cream.

Shape and fry

  1. Take a portion of the rice, about the size of an egg, and flatten it.

  2. Place a dessert spoonful of the mixture in the center, close the rice around it, and shape it like an egg.

  3. Dip the croquette in the beaten egg and roll it in pounded cracker.

  4. Fry in boiling hot lard 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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Rice + nutmegtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the soft starchy shell that holds the filling together.
Egg
Binds the beaten egg coating so the cracker crumbs adhere.
Cheese
Adds savoury flavour and helps the rice bind together.
Cream
Adds moisture to the filling so it stays tender rather than dry.

The step that matters

Closing the rice around the filling. If the rice shell is thin or cracked, the filling can leak out during frying. Shaping it smoothly and evenly keeps the croquette sealed and cooking uniformly.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, cheese, butter, meat, oyster, parsley, nutmeg):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Figfits less well
  4. Limefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, cheese, butter, meat, oyster, parsley, nutmeg. 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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