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Potato Croquettes

A fried potato croquette made with mashed potato, cream, onion, butter, egg yolks, and cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the mashed potato, cream, chopped onion, butter, and egg yolks until well combined.

  2. Shape the mixture into small croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each croquette in cracker crumbs, then dip in beaten egg.

  2. Fry the croquettes in butter 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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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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 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

Mashed potato
Forms the bulk of the croquette and gives a soft, tender interior.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture together and add richness and structure when set.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour, and helps the outside brown when frying.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the potato mixture.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that protects the croquette while frying.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes in butter until golden brown. The coated croquettes need enough hot fat to brown quickly. Too little heat lets them absorb grease and turn soggy, while the crumb coating can burn before the soft centre is hot.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

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