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Cheese Croquettes

Cheese croquettes are small fried pastries filled with a Parmesan and egg mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Croquettes

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix the grated Parmesan cheese with melted butter.

  2. Add the beaten yolks of two eggs and the beaten white of one egg.

  3. Season with salt and cayenne pepper.

Shape and coat

  1. Cut small rounds of pastry and spread the mixture on one half.

  2. Moisten the edges and press them together.

  3. Coat with egg and bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in boiling 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Parmesan cheese + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Parmesan cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together577 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Parmesan cheese
Provides savory flavor and salty, umami richness to the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the filling smooth and tender.
Eggs
Bind the filling and set when cooked, holding it together inside the pastry.
Pastry
Forms the crisp outer shell that encloses the cheese filling.
Bread crumbs
Form a crunchy, golden coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Sealing the rounds. If the moistened edges are not pressed firmly together, the filling can leak out during frying. Moistening helps the pastry seal.

“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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