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Sweet Potato Croquettes

A fried croquette made from mashed sweet potatoes, butter, herbs, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Sweet 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 ↓

Sweet Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the sweet potatoes until done, then peel and mash them.

  2. Add butter, salt, pepper, chopped parsley, and grated onion or nutmeg to the mashed potatoes.

  3. Roll the mixture into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette twice in beaten eggs and then in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot oil 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.

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

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

  3. Walnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together865 recipes

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

  4. Sweet potato + walnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Sweet potato + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together180 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

Sweet potatoes
Provide the bulk of the filling and a soft, moist interior when mashed.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the mashed filling soft and flavourful.
Eggs
Bind the coating so the bread crumbs adhere and form a crisp shell.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer layer when fried.

The step that matters

Dip each croquette twice in beaten eggs and then in bread crumbs. A double egg dip gives the bread crumbs something to cling to. Without a full, even coat, the crumbs can fall off or leave bare patches that burn or split in the hot oil.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, butter, walnut, pepper, parsley, egg, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, butter, walnut, pepper, parsley, 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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