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Sausage Croquettes

Sausage croquettes are fried balls of seasoned sausage, riced potato, eggs, and parsley coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Sausage Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine sausage meat, riced potato, chopped eggs, parsley, salt, and pepper.

  2. Bind the mixture with the slightly beaten egg.

  3. Mold the mixture into cork-shaped croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll the croquettes in bread crumbs.

  2. Dip them in the beaten egg mixed with cold water.

  3. Roll again in bread crumbs.

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

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

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

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

  5. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sausage meat
Provides the main seasoned flavor and fat that carries the croquette's taste.
Riced potato
Adds bulk and a soft, moist interior that holds the mixture together.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set when cooked, holding the croquette's shape.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. The oil must be hot enough to crisp and brown the crumb coating quickly; if it is too cool, the croquettes absorb excess oil and turn greasy before the coating sets.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, egg, parsley, pepper, 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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