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Bice Croquettes

Rice croquettes are rolls of cooked rice mixed with butter, eggs, and cracker crumbs, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Bice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the croquette mixture

  1. Boil the rice in milk or water until tender.

  2. While warm, add the butter and eggs.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into rolls.

  2. Dip the rolls in cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry the rolls in lard or butter 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the bulk of the croquette and, once cooked soft, binds the mixture together.
Eggs
Bind the mixture as they set, helping the rolls hold their shape.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mixture, softening the texture inside.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Fry the rolls in lard or butter until golden brown. Frying at a steady heat sets the crumb coating into a crisp shell and browns it through the Maillard reaction, while the inside stays moist. Too low a heat soaks the rolls in fat and 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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