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Cheese Croquettes

Small fried croquettes made from grated cheese, butter, milk, egg, and spices, coated in cracker dust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk 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 ↓

Cheese Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the grated cheese, butter, milk, beaten egg, salt, and paprika until smooth.

  2. Mold the mixture into small croquettes, using about 1 tablespoon for each.

Coat and fry

  1. In a separate bowl, mix a little milk with the yolk of an egg.

  2. Dip each croquette in the egg wash, then roll in cracker dust.

  3. Fry the croquettes in hot oil for about 1 minute until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately to enjoy the soft cheese inside.

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

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

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

American cheese
Melts into a soft, creamy filling that gives the croquettes their interior texture.
Egg
Binds the cheese mixture so the croquettes hold their shape when molded.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the filling, softening its texture.
Cracker dust
Forms a crisp outer coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Frying the croquettes. Frying in hot oil for a short time browns the coating quickly, while the cheese inside melts. Oil that is too cool lets the croquettes absorb grease and fall apart.

“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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