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Potato Croquettes

A fried potato mixture shaped into cones, coated in breadcrumbs.

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

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Peel and mash the potatoes.

  2. Add the yolk of the egg, milk, butter, pepper, and salt to the potatoes and mix well.

Shape and coat

  1. Form the mixture into cone shapes.

  2. Dip each cone in the egg white and roll in bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in hot fat until golden brown.

  2. Serve with cold meat or game.

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

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

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

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

  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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the croquette and give it a soft, starchy body.
Egg
The yolk binds the mash, and the white helps the bread crumbs stick to the coating.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mash, softening its texture.
Milk
Adds moisture so the mashed potato becomes smooth and easy to shape.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Fry in hot fat until golden brown. Hot fat sets the crust quickly and browns the coating before the interior heats through. If the fat is too cool, the croquettes absorb grease and turn heavy and soggy.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Tomatofits less well

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