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Eice Croquettes

Rice croquettes made from cooked rice, milk, water, eggs, butter, sugar, and cracker crumbs, fried in lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Eice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. In a pot, combine rice, milk, water, and salt. Heat gently until it swells but does not simmer.

  2. Once dry, stir in beaten eggs, sugar, and butter.

Shape and fry

  1. Spread cracker crumbs on a board.

  2. Form rolls of the rice mixture in the crumbs.

  3. Drop the rolls into hot lard and fry until browned.

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. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Swells and sets into a thick, starchy mass that holds the croquette's shape.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness, softening the rice as it cooks.
Eggs
Bind the rice mixture and help it set firm when cooked.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a softer, more tender interior.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the outside brown during frying.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns in the hot fat.

The step that matters

Heat gently until the rice swells but does not simmer. Rice that boils hard in milk can scorch on the bottom and cook unevenly. Gentle heat lets the starch absorb liquid and swell into a mass that is easy to shape.

“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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