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Tomato Ckoquettes

Tomato croquettes made with tomato juice, farina, butter, salt, celery salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,377 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Tomato Ckoquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Bring the tomato juice to a boil.

  2. Sift in the farina slowly, stirring until boiling.

  3. Cook for 20 minutes.

  4. Mix in the butter, salt, celery salt, and pepper.

  5. Let the mixture cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Form into cork-shaped croquettes.

  2. Coat with egg and bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in deep fat until golden brown.

  4. Serve alone or with cream 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.

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. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

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

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + buttertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Farina
Thickens the tomato juice into a firm mixture that holds its shape when cooled.
Tomato juice
Forms the liquid base that the farina thickens into the croquette mixture.
Butter
Adds richness and a softer texture to the cooked mixture.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool. The farina mixture must cool and firm up fully before shaping; if it is still warm and soft, the croquettes will not hold their cork shape and may break apart in the fat.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, celery, pepper):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, celery, pepper. 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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