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Macaroni Croquettes

A fried pastry shell filled with a macaroni and mushroom mixture.

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

Macaroni Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the filling

  1. Boil the macaroni, broken into small pieces, in part of the milk until tender.

  2. Stew the mushrooms in the remaining milk for a short time, then season well and mix with the macaroni.

Shape and coat

  1. Roll out the puff pastry very thin and cut into small pieces.

  2. Place a spoonful of the macaroni and mushroom mixture on each piece of pastry, then fold and seal the edges to form croquettes.

  3. Dip the croquettes in beaten egg and coat with breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in hot lard until golden brown.

  2. Drain on blotting paper before serving and arrange on a dish.

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. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  4. Milk + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the bulk of the filling, giving it a soft, starchy body once cooked.
Milk
Cooks the macaroni and mushrooms, providing moisture and a creamy base for the filling.
Mushrooms
Add savoury, earthy flavour and moisture to the filling.
Egg
Binds the breadcrumb coating so it adheres and sets to a crisp shell when fried.
Puff pastry
Encloses the filling in a thin wrapper that becomes flaky and crisp when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the croquettes in hot lard. If the lard is not hot enough, the coating absorbs fat and turns greasy before it browns. Hot fat sets the crust quickly, sealing the filling inside and producing even golden colour.

“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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