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Sweet Potato and Chestnut Croquettes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chestnut and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Sweet Potato and Chestnut Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare sweet potatoes as usual.

  2. Add the pounded chestnuts to the potatoes.

  3. Mix in butter, eggs, and cream thoroughly.

  4. Season with coarse sea salt to taste.

  5. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  6. Fry the croquettes in deep hot oil until golden brown.

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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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. Chestnut + sweet potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chestnut + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  5. Sweet potato + buttertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chestnut, butter, egg, cream):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chestnut, butter, egg, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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