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Egg Croquettes

Egg croquettes are fried egg halves filled with a yolk mixture and coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Egg Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the eggs until hard, then peel and cut in half.

  2. Remove the yolks and mash them with the back of a spoon.

  3. Add melted butter, salt, pepper, and sweet cream to make a soft paste.

  4. Refill the egg whites with the yolk mixture and put them together to form whole eggs.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each egg in beaten egg and then coat with cracker crumbs.

  2. Drop into hot lard and fry until golden brown.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

  4. Pepper + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Pepper and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Form the main body of the croquette, with the whites holding the yolk filling.
Butter
Adds richness and softness to the yolk paste so it holds together smoothly.
Sweet cream
Loosens the mashed yolks into a soft, spreadable paste.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the cracker crumbs stick to the outside.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Fry until golden brown. The lard must be hot when the coated eggs go in. Hot fat sets the crumb coating quickly and browns it, so the eggs absorb less oil and the coating stays crisp rather than greasy or falling off.

“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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