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Sweet Potato Croquettes

A fried snack made from mashed sweet potatoes, coated in egg and cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Sweet Potato Croquettes

Why it works: Potato and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,456 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Croquettes

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Moisten the mashed potatoes with gravy or melted butter.

  2. Dip the mixture in beaten egg, then coat with cracker crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in a wire basket in deep 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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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. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the bulk and soft, moist interior of the croquette.
Gravy or melted butter
Adds moisture and richness so the mashed potato holds together and stays tender.
Egg
Binds the mixture and helps the cracker crumbs adhere to the outside.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Frying until golden brown. Frying in hot deep fat quickly sets the egg coating and browns the crumbs. If the fat is too cool, the croquettes absorb oil and turn greasy before the coating crisps, so the fat should be hot and the pieces should not be crowded.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, 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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