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Peanut Croquettes

A fried snack of peanut and breadcrumb mixture shaped into croquettes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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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 ↓

Peanut Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Combine bread crumbs, cold milk, and chopped peanuts in a double boiler; stir until smooth.

  2. Remove the mixture from heat and mix in the beaten egg yolks.

  3. Let the mixture cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into desired forms.

  2. Dip each shape in egg.

  3. Coat each shape with cracker crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the shapes in hot oil until golden brown.

  2. Drain the fried shapes on brown paper.

  3. Serve immediately with caramel or hot melted maple sugar.

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.

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. Milk + peanuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + peanuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  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

Bread crumbs
Form the body of the mixture and help it hold its shape.
Peanuts
Add bulk, nutty flavor, and a bit of texture to the filling.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and help it set when cooked.
Cold milk
Adds moisture so the crumbs form a smooth, workable mixture.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. Cooling firms the mixture so it holds its shape; shaping a warm, soft mixture can make it slump and tear, and the egg yolks can scramble if they were added to very hot mixture.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Peasfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Cocoafits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, 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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