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Potato Croquettes

A fried snack made from mashed potatoes mixed with seasonings, shaped into croquettes, coated in breadcrumbs, and deep-fried.

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

Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine mashed potatoes, salt, pepper, celery salt, onion juice, and egg yolks.

  2. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  3. Roll each croquette in breadcrumbs, then dip in beaten egg, and coat again in breadcrumbs.

  4. Let the croquettes cool completely before frying.

Fry

  1. Heat oil in a pan and fry the croquettes 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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  3. Potato + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

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

  4. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Forms the bulk of the croquette and provides a soft, moist interior.
Egg yolks
Bind the potato mixture so the croquettes hold their shape.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust when fried.
Onion juice
Adds savory onion flavor to the potato mixture.

The step that matters

Let the croquettes cool completely before frying. Cooling firms the potato and egg mixture so it holds its shape in hot oil. Warm croquettes are soft and can break apart or let the coating slip off.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, pepper, celery, 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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