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Sweet Potato Croquettes

Sweet potato croquettes are fried potato cakes flavored with butter, cream, spices, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Sweet Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Pepper and parsley 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 ↓

Sweet Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Boil the sweet potatoes until tender, then peel and mash them.

  2. Add butter, cream, salt, pepper, nutmeg, onion juice, parsley, and beaten eggs to the mashed potatoes.

Shape and coat

  1. Form the mixture into cylinder-shaped croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then coat with fine bread crumbs.

Fry

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

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

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

  2. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

  3. Sweet potato + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  5. Sweet potato + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together180 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Provide the starchy bulk that makes the croquette mixture hold together when mashed.
Eggs
Bind the mashed mixture and form a coating that helps the crumbs adhere.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, softening the mash and carrying flavour.
Cream
Adds moisture and smoothness to the mashed potato mixture.

The step that matters

Frying in deep hot fat. If the fat is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb oil and turn greasy before the coating browns. Hot fat sets the crumb crust quickly, keeping the inside moist and the outside crisp and golden.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, butter, cream, pepper, nutmeg, 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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