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Sweet and White Potato Croquettes

A fried dish of mashed sweet and white potato shaped into croquettes and coated in 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

Make the mixture

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

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

Shape and coat

  1. Shape mixture into croquettes.

  2. Roll croquettes in bread crumbs.

  3. Dip croquettes in beaten egg.

  4. Roll croquettes in bread crumbs again.

Fry

  1. Fry croquettes in smoking-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. 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

Potatoes (in the method)
Form the bulk of the croquette, giving a soft, starchy interior once mashed and hot.
Egg yolk
Binds the mashed potato so the croquettes hold their shape.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the soft potato interior.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Frying in smoking-hot oil. Oil that is hot enough sets the crumb coating quickly and browns it, so the croquettes absorb less oil and do not fall apart or turn greasy.

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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