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Cheese Croquettes

Cheese croquettes are fried meatballs made with veal, eggs, cracker crumbs, cheese, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,426 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine minced veal, beaten eggs, cracker crumbs, cheese, salt, and pepper.

  2. Add milk gradually until the mixture forms a dough that can be molded.

  3. Shape the mixture into oblong forms.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat lard in a deep pan and fry the croquettes until golden brown.

  2. Serve with jelly and garnish as desired.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + milktop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main body and savory meaty flavor of the croquettes.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and help it hold its shape while frying.
Cracker crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the mixture body so it can be molded.
Cheese
Adds rich, savory flavor and helps bind the filling.
Milk
Adds moisture so the mixture comes together into a moldable dough.

The step that matters

Fry until golden brown. The croquettes must be fried in hot fat long enough to brown the outside and cook the filling through. Too low a heat leaves them greasy and underdone, while too high a heat browns the outside before the centre is hot.

“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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