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Macakoki Croquettes

A fried croquette made from boiled macaroni, cheese, eggs, and seasonings, coated in egg and cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Macakoki Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the macaroni

  1. Boil macaroni in salted water until done, then drain.

  2. Chop the macaroni finely and mix in pepper, salt, eggs, and grated cheese.

  3. In a saucepan, heat butter until bubbling, then add the macaroni mixture and cook for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.

Shape and fry

  1. Once cool enough, shape the mixture into croquettes, roll in egg and cracker crumbs.

  2. Fry in boiling lard until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with tomato sauce.

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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Pepper + cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Egg + cheesetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,253 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

Macaroni
Forms the bulk of the croquette and gives it a body that holds its shape.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and set during cooking to hold the croquette's shape.
Grated cheese
Adds rich flavor and helps bind the mixture as it melts and cools.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the macaroni mixture as it cooks.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, soft mixture is sticky and hard to form, and it can break open or lose its shape. Cooling lets the eggs and cheese firm up enough to hold the croquette together during coating and 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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