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Eice Croquettes

A fried dish of rice mixed with milk, sugar, lemon or orange flower water, eggs, and coated in flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Eice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Boil rice in milk until tender.

  2. Stir in lemon or orange flower water and sugar.

  3. Allow the mixture to cool, then mix in the eggs.

  4. Cut the mixture into small pieces.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each piece in flour, then dip in beaten eggs, and coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot oil 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.

Explore the science

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

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

  2. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked in milk until tender, it forms the soft body of the croquette.
Milk
Cooks into the rice, giving it moisture and a creamy texture.
Eggs
Bind the cooled mixture so the pieces hold their shape.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the golden colour develop during frying.

The step that matters

Allow the mixture to cool before adding the eggs. Eggs added to a hot mixture can scramble and lose their binding power. Cooling first lets them mix in smoothly and set the pieces when heated.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, sugar, egg, flour, bread):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, sugar, egg, flour, 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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