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Potato Croquettes

A fried dish of mashed potato rolls coated in cracker crumbs, served with creamed peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Shape and coat

  1. In a bowl, combine the mashed potatoes, butter, milk, salt, pepper, and beaten egg.

  2. Mix well and shape the mixture into long, thin rolls.

  3. Dip each roll in the beaten egg, then coat with cracker crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a pan and fry the croquettes until golden brown.

  2. Serve hot on a platter with a border of creamed peas.

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

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

  2. Potato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

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

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

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

  5. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

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, moist interior.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and helps the cracker crumb coating adhere.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for a tender texture and flavor.
Milk
Adds moisture so the potato mixture can be shaped easily.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browning outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the coated croquettes. Oil must be hot enough to brown the crumb coating quickly; if it is too cool, the croquettes absorb excess oil and turn greasy, and the coating may not crisp before the soft interior overheats.

Swap the peas

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

  1. Peanutfits about as well
  2. Walnutfits about as well
  3. Peasthe original
  4. Beansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, butter, milk, pepper, 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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