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Potato Croquettes

A fried potato croquette made with nuts, eggs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the croquettes

  1. In a bowl, combine chopped pecans or walnuts, mashed potatoes, egg yolks, salt, onion juice, parsley, pepper, and nutmeg. Mix well and mold the mixture into cylinder-shaped croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites with water until well mixed. Roll the croquettes in the egg white mixture.

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot fat until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with well-seasoned 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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

  3. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  4. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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 gives a soft, tender interior.
Eggs
Egg yolks bind the mixture, while egg whites form a coating that helps it brown.
Pecans or walnuts
Add crunch and nutty flavor to the soft potato mixture.

The step that matters

Frying in hot fat. If the fat is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb oil and turn greasy before the coating sets and browns. Hot fat seals the coating quickly, keeping the inside moist and the outside crisp.

Swap the pecans

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

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, egg, onion, parsley, pepper, nutmeg. 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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