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Rice Croquettes

Rice croquettes are fried rolls of rice mixed with milk, lemon rind, sugar, eggs, and butter, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice

  1. Wash the rice thoroughly.

  2. Place the washed rice in a saucepan with the milk and grated lemon rind.

  3. Simmer gently, covered, until tender.

  4. Add the egg yolks, butter, and sugar.

  5. Turn the mixture onto a plate to cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Once cool, divide into equal portions and shape into rolls or pear shapes.

  2. Brush with beaten egg and roll in bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in hot fat until brown.

  4. Drain the croquettes.

Finish and serve

  1. Sprinkle with sugar.

  2. Garnish with angelica.

  3. Serve with fruit syrup.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Carolina rice
Starch that softens in milk and forms the body of the croquette mixture.
Milk
Cooks into the rice, adding moisture and a soft, creamy texture.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and help bind it once cooled and shaped.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture in the rice mixture.
Castor sugar
Adds sweetness and helps give the croquettes a golden browning in frying.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture before shaping. Warm rice is soft and sticky, so it will not hold its shape. Cooling lets the starch set and firm up, making the portions easier to shape and less likely to break apart in hot fat.

Swap the lemon

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

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

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