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Bean Croquettes

Bean croquettes are fried patties made from mashed beans, onion, egg, butter, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Bean Croquettes

Why it works: Beans and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,242 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Bean Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beans

  1. Wash the beans and soak them overnight.

  2. Boil the beans slowly with the bay leaf and onion until tender, changing the water several times.

  3. Mash the beans through a colander.

Shape and fry

  1. Season the mixture with butter, salt, and pepper.

  2. Add the beaten egg.

  3. Form the mixture into small croquettes.

  4. Roll the croquettes in egg and breadcrumbs.

  5. Fry the croquettes in deep fat.

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. Beans + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,242 recipes

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

  2. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Beans + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,799 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. White pepper + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

What each ingredient does

Beans
Form the bulk of the croquettes and give them their body.
Egg
Binds the mashed beans so the croquettes hold their shape.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mashed mixture.

The step that matters

Mash the beans through a colander. Pushing the cooked beans through a colander makes a smooth, even paste. Lumps or loose pieces can make the croquettes crumble when shaped and fried.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, onion, egg, butter):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, onion, egg, butter. 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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