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Peach-shaped Croquettes

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Peach-shaped Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, combine milk and bring to a boil.

  2. Add butter, sugar, and lemon peel; cover and cook for 30 minutes.

  3. Remove lemon peel, add egg yolks, and mix well.

  4. Form a dozen small, peach-shaped croquettes with part of the rice.

  5. Dip croquettes in beaten eggs, roll in breadcrumbs, and fry until light brown.

  6. Drain on a cloth and roll in powdered sugar.

  7. Dress the remaining rice on a dish, arranging the croquettes in a dome shape.

  8. Decorate with candied angelica, citron, raisins, and almonds.

  9. Reduce peach syrup with Madeira wine and peach marmalade until thick, then pour over the peaches.

  10. Serve hot.

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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  4. Lemon + peachtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Butter + peachtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, butter, sugar, lemon, egg, syrup, madeira wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits about as well
  3. Orangefits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, sugar, lemon, egg, syrup, madeira wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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