Meat Croquettes

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons fat
• 1 tablespoon chopped onion
• 4 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup milk
• Seasoning to taste
• 1 cup cold chopped meat
• Bread crumbs, rice, or potatoes

Instructions

1. Put fat in frying-pan, add chopped onion and cook until light brown. Remove from fire, rub flour into fat, then gradually add milk, and cook until it thickens, stirring constantly.
2. Season to taste and add the chopped meat. Cool, and add enough bread crumbs, cooked rice or potato so that the mixture can be molded in form of croquettes.
3. Dip croquettes in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again and fry until brown in hot fat. Serve with cream sauce or Tomato Sauce (see page 239). Any left-over meat may be used and seasoned with chopped green peppers, pimiento, chopped olives, or celery. Cook in the hot fat for 4 minutes each at 370 degrees.