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Sausage Croquettes

Sausage croquettes are small rolls of sausage and mashed potatoes coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,585 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sausage Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mash the cooked potatoes and season well with salt, pepper, and thyme.

  2. Add the sausage meat to the potato mixture and combine thoroughly.

  3. On a floured surface, shape the mixture into small rolls.

Coat and fry

  1. Brush each roll with beaten egg, then dip in breadcrumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in hot oil until well browned.

Serve

  1. Serve on a plate garnished with parsley, and offer tomato sauce or thick brown gravy on the side.

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.

  1. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Potato + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

  4. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Meat + thymetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,008 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

Sausage meat
Provides the main savoury flavour and fat that gives the filling its richness.
Cooked potatoes
Form the bulk of the filling, giving the croquettes a soft, tender interior.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder and glue so the breadcrumbs stick to the rolls.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Fry the croquettes in hot oil until well browned. If the oil is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisping, and the egg-and-breadcrumb coating may separate or the centre may stay cold. Frying in properly hot oil sets the crust quickly and gives browning through the Maillard reaction.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, egg, thyme, pepper. 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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