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Croquettes of Boiled Meat

Croquettes of boiled meat are small fried balls made from minced boiled meat, sausage, mashed potatoes, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,611 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Croquettes of Boiled Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine minced boiled meat, sausage meat, mashed potatoes, soaked bread crumbs, and sweet herbs.

  2. Mix until it forms a paste, then shape into small balls.

  3. Roll the balls in fine bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

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

  2. Serve with sauce piquante.

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.

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

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

  2. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Minced boiled meat
Provides the main body and savoury flavour of the croquettes.
Mashed potatoes
Adds bulk and softness, helping the mixture bind into a paste.
Bread crumbs soaked in milk
Adds moisture and binding so the mixture holds its shape.
Sausage meat
Adds richness and fat, contributing flavour and moisture to the filling.

The step that matters

Shape the balls before rolling in crumbs. The paste must be firm enough to hold its shape; a soft mixture can fall apart during shaping and frying. Dry, fine crumbs then form an even coating that browns well in hot oil.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, bread, milk, sauce):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, bread, milk, sauce. 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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