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Meat Croquettes

Meat croquettes are baked parcels of minced beef or mutton topped with mashed potatoes and butter.

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

Why it works: Onion and potato 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 ↓

Meat Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Mince the cold cooked beef or mutton finely with the onion, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  2. Add gravy to moisten the mixture.

Assemble and bake

  1. Place the mixture into shells or small cups, filling them three parts full.

  2. Top with mashed potatoes mixed with a little cream.

  3. Add a small piece of butter on top of each.

  4. Brown them lightly in the oven at 350°F (175°C).

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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  3. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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

  5. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold cooked beef or mutton
Forms the main body of the filling and gives the croquettes their meaty flavour.
Gravy
Moistens the minced meat so the filling stays tender rather than dry.
Mashed potatoes
Forms the creamy topping that softens and then lightly browns in the oven.
Butter
Adds fat that melts over the topping, encouraging golden browning and richness.
Onion
Adds savoury depth and aroma to the minced filling.

The step that matters

Browning lightly in the oven. Browning relies on heat and surface sugars and fats; too little heat leaves the topping pale and underdeveloped, while too long can dry the filling and scorch the potato.

“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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