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Potato Croquettes

A fried potato mixture shaped into small pieces, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Pass the boiled potatoes through a sieve or mash them.

  2. Add the butter, parsley, salt, and pepper, mixing well.

  3. Moisten the mixture with the beaten egg, ensuring it is not too wet.

Shape and fry

  1. Divide the mixture into seven portions and shape them into pyramids, small balls, or cork shapes.

  2. Coat each piece in egg and breadcrumbs.

  3. Fry 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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled potatoes
Form the bulk of the croquettes and set the soft interior texture.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mashed potato mixture.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and helps the breadcrumb coating adhere.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Moisten the mixture with the beaten egg, ensuring it is not too wet.. Too much liquid makes the mixture soft and sticky, so the shapes lose their form and may split or break apart in the hot oil. Adding egg gradually keeps it firm enough to shape.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, parsley, pepper, 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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