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Hominy Croquettes

Hominy croquettes are fried balls made from mashed hominy, eggs, butter, salt, pepper, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Hominy Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mash the cold boiled hominy until fine.

  2. Add the beaten eggs, salt, pepper, and butter; stir until well combined.

  3. Heat the mixture in a skillet over medium heat until thoroughly heated.

Shape and coat

  1. Let the mixture cool, then form it into balls.

  2. Dip each ball into beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in hot lard until golden brown.

  2. Remove with a skimmer and serve.

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

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hominy
Forms the bulk of the croquette, giving it a soft, starchy body.
Eggs
Bind the mashed hominy together and help it hold its shape.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mixture.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. Once the mixture has been heated with the eggs, it is soft and sticky while warm. Cooling lets it firm up so the balls keep their shape through dipping and frying.

“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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