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Sweet Potato Croquettes

A fried snack of sweet potato mixture shaped into croquettes and coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Sweet Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine hot riced sweet potatoes, butter, salt, pepper, and beaten egg in a bowl.

  2. If the potatoes are very dry, add hot milk to moisten.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in bread crumbs, then in beaten egg, and again in bread crumbs.

Fry and drain

  1. Fry the croquettes in deep oil until golden brown, then drain on paper towels.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Sweet potato + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sweet potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Provide the bulk and starchy body that holds the croquette shape.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the soft interior.
Egg
Binds the mixture so the croquettes hold together, and helps the crumb coating adhere.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Frying in deep oil until golden brown. The oil must be hot enough to crisp and brown the crumb coating quickly. If it is too cool, the croquettes absorb oil, turn greasy, and the interior can fall apart before the crust sets.

Swap the sweet potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, egg, bread. 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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