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Pommes De Terre a LA Sauce Blanche

Boiled potatoes served with white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,073 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pommes De Terre a LA Sauce Blanche

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the potatoes

  1. Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender.

  2. Peel the potatoes immediately after cooking.

Serve

  1. Slice the potatoes into rounds and arrange them on a serving dish.

  2. Pour white sauce over the potatoes and serve promptly.

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. Potato + saucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the main body of the dish, providing starchy bulk that becomes soft and tender when boiled.
White sauce
Adds moisture and a creamy, rich coating that softens the flavour of the potatoes.

The step that matters

Peel the potatoes immediately after cooking. Potatoes are easiest to peel while still hot, because the skin loosens from the flesh. Once they cool, the skin clings and the flesh firms up, making peeling harder and more likely to tear the potatoes.

“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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