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Potato and Cheese Croquettes

A fried snack of mashed potatoes mixed with cheese, seasoned, shaped, coated, and deep‑fried until golden.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine hot riced potatoes, grated cheese, salt, cayenne, onion juice, heavy cream, and beaten egg yolk.

  2. Mix until well combined.

  3. Shape the mixture into pyramids or cones.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in deep fat until golden brown and drain on paper towels.

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

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Riced potatoes
Form the bulk of the mixture, giving a soft, tender interior when cooked.
Grated cheese
Adds rich flavor and helps bind the mixture together as it melts slightly.
Egg
Yolk binds the mixture, while the beaten white helps bread crumbs adhere to the coating.
Heavy cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the interior soft and creamy.

The step that matters

Fry in deep fat until golden brown. Frying at a steady hot temperature browns the bread crumb coating quickly and seals it, so the croquette heats through without absorbing excess oil or falling apart in the fat.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, cheese, pepper, cream, egg, 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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