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Nut Croquettes

Nut croquettes made from soaked bread crumbs, nuts, eggs, and spices, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Nut Croquettes

Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Nut Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Soak the stale bread crumbs in milk until softened.

  2. Mix the soaked bread crumbs with the chopped nuts.

  3. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.

  4. Add the beaten yolks of the eggs and mix well.

  5. Shape the mixture into small croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then coat with breadcrumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in deep hot oil until golden brown.

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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Explore the science

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. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  3. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  4. Milk + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together982 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Bread + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale white bread crumbs
Soak up milk to bind the nut mixture and keep the croquettes moist.
Milk
Softens the bread crumbs so they blend evenly with the nuts.
Chopped nuts
Provide the main body, texture and rich flavour of the croquettes.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and, beaten, form a coating that helps breadcrumbs stick.

The step that matters

Fry in deep hot oil until golden brown. If the oil is not hot enough, croquettes absorb excess oil and turn greasy, while the outside may brown before the centre heats. Steady, hot oil seals the coating and gives even browning.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Peasfits better
  2. Cocoafits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, pepper, 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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