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Potato Croquettes

A fried potato croquette made with riced potatoes, seasonings, egg yolk, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Celery and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,810 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the hot riced potatoes, celery salt, butter, cayenne, salt, onion juice, pepper, chopped parsley, and egg yolk until well combined.

  2. Shape the mixture into cylinders.

Coat

  1. Roll each cylinder in breadcrumbs.

  2. Dip the rolled cylinders in beaten egg.

  3. Roll the cylinders in breadcrumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in deep fat until golden brown.

  2. Drain on paper towels, garnish, and serve.

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. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Riced potatoes
Form the soft, starchy body that holds the croquette together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, softening the mash for a smoother texture.
Egg yolk
Binds the potato mixture so the cylinders hold their shape.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when the croquettes are fried.

The step that matters

Coating in egg and breadcrumbs. The egg and breadcrumb coating must cover the cylinders fully, or the filling can leak or burst in hot fat. Rolling the cylinders firmly and recoating them creates a sealed, even crust that browns and holds its shape during frying.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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