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Sweet and White Potato Croquettes

A fried croquette made from mashed sweet and white potato, butter, seasonings, egg yolk, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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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 ↓

Sweet and White Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine mashed potato, butter, pepper, salt, celery salt, onion juice, parsley, and egg yolk in a bowl.

  2. If the mixture is not moist enough to mold, add a little cream or milk.

Shape and fry

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

  2. Heat oil in a pan until smoking hot, then fry the croquettes 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. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potato
Forms the bulk of the croquettes and gives them a soft, moist interior.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, keeping the inside tender.
Egg yolk
Binds the mixture so the croquettes hold their shape.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the croquettes. If the oil is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb oil and turn greasy before the crust sets. Smoking-hot oil seals the bread crumbs quickly, producing a crisp exterior while the potato inside heats through.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, butter, pepper, celery, parsley, egg, cream. 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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