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Oxo Croquettes

A fried potato croquette with eggs, parsley, and cayenne, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Oxo Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Beat the eggs until very light.

  2. Mix the beaten eggs with the mashed potatoes, then add salt and cayenne.

  3. Cook the mixture in a frying pan over medium heat until it leaves the sides of the pan.

  4. Remove from heat and stir in the chopped parsley.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes, roll them in egg, then in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in boiling Olive Butter 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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

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

  4. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Form the body of the croquettes and give them a soft, tender interior.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and form the coating that helps the crumbs stick.
Olive butter
Serves as the frying fat that browns the outside of the croquettes.

The step that matters

Cooking the mixture until it leaves the pan. Cooking drives off moisture from the potato and egg mixture, so it firms up enough to hold its shape when formed. Stopping too early leaves it soft and likely to fall apart during frying.

Swap the potato

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

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

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