Plain Croquettes

Ingredients

• About 4 tablespoons minced cooked fowl.
• 3 tablespoons mashed cooked yam or sweet potato.
• 1 teaspoon butter, lard or ground nut oil.
• 2 eggs.
• ½ onion.
• 1 tablespoon brown bread crumbs or crushed biscuits.
• 1 tablespoon flour.
• A pinch of salt and pepper.
• 1 breakfast cup ground nut oil.
• ½ teaspoon chopped parsley and tatassa.

Method

1. 1

   Free the meat from skin, mince it, and mix with onion, yam, salt, pepper, and parsley.

2. 2

   Add one beaten egg.

3. 3

   Shape into small cakes.

4. 4

   Heat oil in a saucepan.

5. 5

   Beat the second egg, spread flour and bread crumbs on a board.

6. 6

   Turn croquettes in flour, then egg, then crumbs.

7. 7

   Fry until light brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Croquettes. (I). About 4 tablespoons minced cooked fowrl. 3 tablespoons mashed cooked yam or sweet potato. 1 teaspoon butter, lard or ground nut oil. 2 eggs. ^ onion. 1 tablespoou brown bread crumbs or crushed biscuits, 1 tablespoon flour. A pinch of salt and pepper. 1 breakfast cup ground nut oil. (£ teaspoon chopped parsley and tatassa).

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