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Nut and Potato Croquettes

A fried croquette made with walnuts, mashed potatoes, bread crumbs, eggs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Nut and Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped walnuts, mashed potatoes, and bread crumbs.

  2. Stir in the beaten eggs, salt, pepper, onion juice, lemon juice, and beef stock.

Shape and fry

  1. Let the mixture cool, then shape it into croquettes.

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

  3. 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.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

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

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

  4. Walnut + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Black walnut meats
Provide the main nutty flavour and body of the croquettes.
Mashed potatoes
Bind the mixture and give the croquettes a soft, moist interior.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and add bulk so the mixture holds its shape.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and form a coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, soft mixture is sticky and falls apart easily. Cooling firms the starch in the potatoes and bread crumbs so the croquettes hold their shape in the hot oil.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, meat, potato, bread, egg, pepper, lemon):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, meat, potato, bread, egg, pepper, lemon. 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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