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Beef and Rice Croquettes

Beef and rice croquettes are fried patties made from finely chopped beef, boiled rice, herbs, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Beef and Rice Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine beef, rice, salt, pepper, onion juice, nutmeg, parsley, and lemon juice.

  2. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. In a separate plate, beat the egg with hot water until well mixed.

  2. Dip each croquette first in the egg mixture, then coat with cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes in hot fat until golden brown.

  4. Drain on absorbent paper and keep warm.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

  5. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef
Forms the savoury body of the croquette and gives it its main filling.
Rice
Binds the mixture and gives the croquettes a soft, tender interior.
Egg
Binds the coating so the cracker crumbs stick and set during frying.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp outer crust that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Frying in hot fat. The fat must be hot enough to brown the crumb coating quickly. If it is too cool, the croquettes absorb excess fat and turn greasy before the crust sets and the interior heats through.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, rice, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, lemon, egg):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, rice, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, lemon, 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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