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Meat Croquettes

A fried patty of chopped meat and potato seasoned with Bell's spiced seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Meat Croquettes

Why it works: Meat and potato work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 786 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Meat Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine chopped meat, chopped potato, and Bell's spiced seasoning.

  2. Add enough water or gravy to moisten the mixture.

  3. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

Fry

  1. Heat oil in a frying basket over medium-high heat.

  2. Fry the croquettes until they are light 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. 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

Chopped meat
Provides the main body and savoury flavour of the croquettes.
Chopped potato
Binds the mixture and adds moisture and a softer texture inside.
Water or gravy
Moistens the mixture so it holds together when shaped.

The step that matters

Adding the water or gravy. Too little liquid leaves the mixture crumbly and hard to shape, while too much makes it soft and likely to fall apart in the hot oil. Add it gradually until the mixture just holds together.

“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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