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Potato Croquettes

A fried dish of mashed potato cylinders coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Celery and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,810 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the mashed potatoes, white pepper, celery salt, coconut, and salt until light.

  2. Add the egg yolks and mix well.

  3. Rub the mixture through a sieve and stir in the chopped parsley.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into smooth balls, then form them into cylinders.

  2. Dip each cylinder in bread crumbs, then in beaten eggs, and roll in crumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in deep hot coconut oil until golden brown.

  2. Drain on paper and serve on a hot dish.

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. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 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 + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

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

  4. Potato + coconuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Form the bulk of the croquette and give a soft, tender interior.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and add richness so the cylinders hold their shape.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns during frying.
Beaten eggs
Act as a glue so the crumbs adhere to the shaped cylinders.

The step that matters

Frying in deep hot oil. If the oil is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy and soggy before it browns. Deep, hot oil seals the crumbs quickly, producing a crisp, golden exterior while the interior heats through.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, celery, coconut, egg, parsley, bread):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, celery, coconut, egg, parsley, 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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