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Potato Snow

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Potato Snow

Why it works: Potato and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Potato Snow

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Choose mealy potatoes that will boil white.

  2. Pare and cook the potatoes until tender but not watery.

  3. Drain and mash the potatoes, seasoning well.

  4. Keep them hot in the saucepan they were cooked in.

  5. Press the mashed potatoes through a wire sieve into a serving dish.

  6. Sprinkle a little fine salt on top before serving.

  7. Optionally, add a small amount of pounded loaf sugar while mashing.

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 + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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