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Potato Croquettes

A fried snack of mashed potatoes mixed with egg yolks, cream, onion juice, butter, parsley, and seasonings, coated in breadcrumbs.

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

Make the potato mixture

  1. Beat the egg yolks until light.

  2. Mix the egg yolks with the mashed potatoes, cream, onion juice, butter, parsley, salt, and pepper.

  3. Cook the mixture in a saucepan over low heat until it leaves the sides of the pan.

  4. Let the mixture cool enough to handle, then form into croquettes.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot oil until golden brown and drain on paper before serving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and help it set firmly when cooked.
Mashed potatoes
Form the bulk of the croquette, giving a soft, tender interior.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the potato mixture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth texture.

The step that matters

Cooking the mixture until it leaves the sides of the pan. Cooking drives off excess moisture and firms the egg-enriched mixture. If it stays wet, the croquettes will be too soft to shape and may fall apart or burst in the hot oil.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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