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Egg Croquettes of Cold

Egg croquettes made from chopped cold eggs, breadcrumbs, milk, butter, salt, pepper, beaten eggs, and fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Egg Croquettes of Cold

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the croquettes

  1. In a bowl, mix chopped eggs, breadcrumbs, milk, butter, salt, and pepper until well combined.

  2. Shape the mixture into small croquettes.

  3. Dip each croquette in beaten eggs, then coat with breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Fry croquettes until golden brown on all sides.

  3. Drain on paper towels 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.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold cooked eggs
Form the main body of the croquettes and provide the filling's substance.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold its shape while coating crisps the outside.
Milk
Adds moisture so the filling stays soft rather than dry.
Butter
Adds fat for richer flavor and a softer, tender interior.
Beaten eggs
Bind the breaded coating so crumbs adhere to each croquette.

The step that matters

Fry croquettes until golden brown on all sides. Frying over medium heat browns the breadcrumb coating through Maillard reactions while the interior warms. Turning them so every side browns keeps the coating even and prevents soggy or unevenly cooked spots.

“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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