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Potato Croquettes

A fried snack made from mashed potatoes, butter, milk, parsley, chives, eggs, and breadcrumbs.

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 chive work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 611 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mash the cold cooked potatoes until smooth.

  2. Add a pat of butter and enough milk or cream to achieve a soft consistency.

  3. Mix in the chopped parsley and chives, if using.

  4. Form the mixture into balls.

Coat and fry

  1. Coat each ball in beaten eggs, then roll in breadcrumbs.

  2. Fry in hot oil until golden brown.

  3. Drain and serve.

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 + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together611 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy base that binds into a soft, moldable mass.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for a tender texture and savory flavor.
Milk or cream
Adds moisture so the mixture becomes soft and easy to shape.
Eggs
Bind the coating so breadcrumbs stick and form a crisp shell.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Oil that is too cool lets the croquettes absorb grease and fall apart before the crust sets. Hot oil quickly sets the egg and breadcrumb coating and browns it, keeping the inside creamy and the outside crisp.

Swap the chive

The recipe marks chive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, butter, milk, parsley, egg):

  1. Chivethe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Leekfits less well
  4. Carrotfits less well

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