Name: Potato Croquettes
Ingredients: 1 ounce butter; mashed potato; coarse sea salt to taste; white pepper to taste

Why it works: Butter and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,456 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

1 ounce butter
mashed potato
coarse sea salt to taste
white pepper to taste

Directions

Melt the butter in a pan.
Add the mashed potato, coarse sea salt, and white pepper.
Mix well until combined.

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.

Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,456 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Potato + white peppertop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together157 recipes

Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
Butter + white peppertop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,814 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).