Why it works: Potato and lamb work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 520 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓
Baked Potatoes, Caelseuhe Style
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the potatoes by baking them until tender.
Omit the herrings from the previous recipe.
Instead, use scallops of smoked lamb or pig's tongue.
Add sliced breakfast sausages on top before serving.
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.
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Potato + lambtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together520 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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