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Potato Croquettes

A fried potato croquette made with mashed potatoes, egg yolk, parsley, cream, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the mashed potatoes with the egg yolk until light.

  2. Season with pepper, salt, and parsley, then moisten with cream.

  3. Heat the mixture in a double boiler until warm, then cool slightly.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape into croquettes, dip in beaten egg, then coat with crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in hot lard until brown, then drain on brown paper.

  2. Serve on a heated plate, garnished with parsley.

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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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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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

  5. Parsley + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Form the bulk of the croquette and give a soft, tender interior.
Egg yolk
Binds the potato mixture and adds richness to hold the shape.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the potato mixture.
Beaten egg
Acts as a glue so the crumbs stick to the shaped croquettes.
Cracker or bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture slightly before shaping. A warm, loose potato mixture is soft and sticky, so it can slump or tear when shaped. Cooling it lets the starch firm up enough to hold its form through the egg and crumb coating and the hot lard.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, parsley, cream, bread):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, parsley, cream, 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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