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Ham Croquettes with Curry

Ham croquettes with curry are fried rolls of mashed potatoes, butter, milk, curry powder, and ham, coated in egg and breadcrumbs.

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 ↓

Ham Croquettes with Curry

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix mashed potatoes, butter, milk, curry powder, and chopped ham until smooth.

  2. Shape the mixture into rolls about 6 inches long.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each roll in beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in deep lard 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.

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

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Forms the soft body of the croquette that holds the filling together.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender interior texture.
Milk
Adds moisture that keeps the potato mixture smooth and shapeable.
Chopped ham
Provides the savory meat flavor throughout the filling.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs adhere to the rolls.
Bread crumbs
Forms a crisp outer coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Coat and fry the rolls. Rolls must be fully coated with egg and crumbs before frying, or the coating can separate or burst in hot fat. Frying at a steady heat until golden browns the crumbs and cooks the filling through without overly darkening the outside.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, milk, ham, egg, bread):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, milk, ham, egg, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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