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Croquettes

A sweet fried rice croquette made with lemon rind, powdered sugar, orange flower, butter, milk, egg yolks, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Croquettes

Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Wash and scald the rice.

  2. In a saucepan, combine rice, lemon rind, powdered sugar, salt, orange flower, butter, and milk.

  3. Cook over heat until the rice is soft.

  4. Stir in the egg yolks without boiling.

  5. Pour the mixture onto a large tin or slab and spread evenly.

Shape and fry

  1. Let it cool, then divide into small portions and roll into balls.

  2. Dip the balls in an omelet, then roll in bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in a very hot pan until golden brown.

  4. Drain and sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that thickens as it cooks, giving the croquettes a soft, creamy body inside.
Egg yolks
Set gently with the warm rice to bind the mixture and enrich its texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness, cooking the rice into a tender, spreadable mass.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, tender mouthfeel.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the mixture and helps the exterior brown when fried.

The step that matters

Stir in the egg yolks without boiling. Egg yolks thicken when heated gently but curdle and turn grainy if they get too hot. Keeping the mixture below boiling keeps it smooth and binds it evenly.

Swap the orange

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

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

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