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Potato Croquettes

Small fried potato croquettes made with boiled potatoes, butter, egg yolk, parsley, coated in egg and breadcrumbs.

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 parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,855 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the boiled potatoes through a wire sieve or mash them thoroughly.

  2. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

  3. Add the mashed potatoes, egg yolk, and chopped parsley to the melted butter and mix well.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into small croquettes.

  2. Coat each croquette in egg and then breadcrumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes in 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.

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

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

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

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

  3. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled potatoes
Provide the starchy base that holds the croquette together and gives a soft interior.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the mixture a smoother, more flavourful texture.
Egg yolk
Binds the mashed potato so the croquettes hold their shape while frying.
Egg
Forms a sticky layer that helps breadcrumbs adhere to the outside of each croquette.
Breadcrumbs
Create a crisp, golden-brown crust when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the croquettes in hot oil. If the oil is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb excess oil and turn greasy, and the breadcrumb coating may fall off. Hot oil quickly sets the crust and browns it.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg, parsley. 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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