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Potato Croquettes

Mashed potatoes mixed with butter, cream or milk, egg whites, salt, and pepper, shaped into croquettes, coated in breadcrumbs, and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the potato mixture

  1. Pare, boil, and mash the potatoes.

  2. Add butter, hot cream or milk, beaten egg whites, salt, and pepper to the mashed potatoes and mix the mixture well.

  3. Let the mixture cool slightly.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the cooled mixture into croquettes.

  2. Roll each croquette in egg.

  3. Roll each croquette in breadcrumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes 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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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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  4. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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 gives the croquettes their soft, fluffy interior.
Butter
Adds fat for richer flavour and a softer, more tender texture.
Hot cream or milk
Adds moisture and richness, and the heat keeps the mash smooth and easy to shape.
Egg whites
Bind the mixture together and help the coating adhere.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool slightly before shaping. A warm, soft mash is too loose to hold its shape and can tear or slump. Cooling firms it so the croquettes keep their form during coating and frying.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cream, egg, pepper. 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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