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Croquettes of Hominy

Hominy croquettes are fried balls made from boiled hominy, milk, butter, eggs, and seasonings, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Croquettes of Hominy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the hominy

  1. Soak the hominy overnight in water.

  2. Boil the soaked hominy in milk until tender.

  3. Let it cool, then add the butter, 1 egg, and seasoning.

  4. Once cold, form the mixture into equal-sized balls.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each ball in the remaining egg and coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in a saucepan of hot oil for about 6 minutes.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hominy
Forms the bulk of the croquette and gives it a soft, starchy body.
Milk
Cooks into the hominy to add moisture and a creamy texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that softens the mixture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and form a coating that holds the bread crumbs.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Chill the mixture before shaping. The mixture must be fully cold so it firms up enough to hold its shape. Shaping it warm makes it soft and sticky, and the balls may collapse or break apart in the hot oil.

“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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