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Nut Croquettes

A baked croquette made with rice, dry simmered protose, egg, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Nut Croquettes

Why it works: Rice and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,762 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Nut Croquettes

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Steam the rice in water with salt for one hour or until tender.

  2. Mix in the dry simmered protose and egg, and season with salt to taste.

  3. If desired, add chopped parsley or celery before shaping.

Shape and bake

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes and roll them in fine bread crumbs.

  2. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for twenty minutes.

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 + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

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 mixture and sets into a tender body once steamed.
Egg
Binds the mixture so the croquettes hold their shape.
Protose
Supplies the main filling and substance of the croquettes.
Fine bread crumbs
Forms a dry outer coating that helps the croquettes brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Shape the mixture into croquettes. The mixture must be firm enough to hold its shape. Cooked rice and egg bind together as they cool, so shaping while the mixture is still too warm or too wet can make the croquettes slump or crack.

Swap the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, egg, bread):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Turmericfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, egg, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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