Name: Cocktail Croquettes
Yield: About 30 croquettes
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ¾ cup fine dry bread crumbs; 2 eggs, beaten; ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 egg yolk; 2 cups chopped seafood (shrimp, crab, lobster); 1 cup milk; ¾ cup all-purpose flour; ¼ cup butter

Preparation info

About
30
croquettes

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

New York Times Menu Cookbook

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1966

About

Ingredients

¼ cup butter
¾ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup

Method

Melt the butter and stir in one-quarter cup of the flour with a wire whisk. Add the heated milk all at once, stirring vigorously with the whisk. When mixture is thickened and smooth, remove it from the heat. Let cool slightly.
Stir in the seafood, seasonings and egg yolk. Shape into bite-size croquettes. Roll croquettes in the remaining flour and then

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