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Bread Croquettes

Bread croquettes are fried bread crumb balls with lemon rind, cinnamon, walnuts, and egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,147 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Bread Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Mix stale bread crumbs, lemon rind, lemon juice, cinnamon, walnuts, and beaten egg whites thoroughly.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Coat each croquette in egg and then in breadcrumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with hot vanilla or wine 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. Cinnamon + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,149 recipes

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

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Bread + cinnamontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread crumbs
Provide the bulk and body that hold the croquettes together.
Egg whites
Bind the mixture and set when heated, giving the croquettes structure.
English walnuts
Add crunch and a rich, nutty flavour to the filling.
Lemon rind
Adds bright aromatic oils that lift the flavour of the filling.

The step that matters

Frying until golden brown. Frying gives the outside a crisp, browned crust through the Maillard reaction while the inside heats through. Stopping too early leaves the centre soft and the coating pale.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, cinnamon, walnut, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cinnamon, walnut, egg. 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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