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Sweet Potato Croquettes

A fried potato-based dish with cream, butter, sugar, lemon, cinnamon, egg, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Henrietta Latham Dwight · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 10 ingredients
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Sweet Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Lemon and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,950 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Bake the potatoes until cooked, then mash them very finely.

  2. Beat the mashed potatoes into a cream with butter, cream, sugar, salt, lemon juice, cinnamon, and egg yolk.

  3. Add the egg white whipped to a stiff froth at the last.

Shape and coat

  1. Form the mixture into cones or cylinders.

  2. Dip the shapes in beaten egg and then coat with breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the coated croquettes in boiling fat until golden.

  2. Drain the fried croquettes on kitchen paper.

  3. Sift a little sugar over them and serve immediately.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

459Calories
12 gProtein
22 gFat
57 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Henrietta Latham Dwight. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.

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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. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cinnamon + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy body that holds the shaped croquettes together.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, creamy texture.
Egg yolk
Enriches the mixture and helps bind it into a cohesive paste.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the mashed potato base.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that complements the sweet potato flavour.

The step that matters

Frying in boiling fat until golden. Hot fat sets the breadcrumb coating quickly, so the croquettes stay intact and absorb less grease. Fat that is too cool lets the coating soak up oil and can cause the shapes to break apart.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, lemon, cinnamon, butter, egg):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, lemon, cinnamon, butter, egg. 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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