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Rice Croquettes

A fried dish of boiled rice mixed with milk, egg, sugar, butter, salt, and nutmeg, shaped and breaded before frying.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Boil the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Add the boiled rice and salt.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  4. Stir in the beaten egg. Cook for one minute.

  5. Remove from heat.

  6. Let cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into forms.

  2. Roll each form in egg.

  3. Roll each form in breadcrumbs.

  4. Fry in hot lard until golden brown.

  5. Serve very hot.

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 + nutmegtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

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

  4. Milk + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled rice
Forms the bulk of the croquettes and gives them their body.
Egg
Sets when cooked, binding the rice so the shapes hold together.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the rice mixture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a softer texture in the mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the surface brown when fried.

The step that matters

Cooking the egg into the rice mixture. Egg proteins set when heated, so the mixture must be cooked briefly after the egg goes in. Under-cooking leaves it runny and hard to shape, while overcooking can make it dense and rubbery.

Swap the nutmeg

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegthe original
  3. Turmericfits less well
  4. Gingerfits less well

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