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Rice Croquettes, Sweet

Sweet rice croquettes made from boiled rice, lemon rind, sugar, butter, milk, egg yolks, bread crumbs, and optional almond, vanilla, coconut, jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,456 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Rice Croquettes, Sweet

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Wash the rice and boil it in water for 5 minutes. Drain and let it cool.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the rice, lemon rind, sugar, butter, and milk. Simmer gently until the rice is soft, thick, and dry.

  3. Spread the rice on a dish to cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Beat the egg yolks briskly.

  2. Form the rice into cork shapes or balls.

  3. Dip them in beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a frying basket and fry the croquettes until brightly browned, about 5-7 minutes.

  2. Drain and sprinkle with white sugar. Serve hot, piled in a pyramid shape.

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. Rice + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Carolina rice
Starch that softens and thickens into a firm, sliceable mass once simmered with milk.
Milk
Liquid that cooks into the rice, giving it a creamy, tender texture and sweetness.
Loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the cooked rice set with a soft, tender bite.
Eggs
Yolks beaten and used as a binding coat that helps the bread crumbs adhere.
Bread crumbs
Crisp outer coating that browns in the frying oil.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender interior and flavor.

The step that matters

Simmer the rice until thick and dry. Rice must cook long enough to absorb the milk and become thick and dry; if it stays wet, it will not hold its shape when formed and will fall apart or soak up oil during frying.

“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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