Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
Preserving Potatoes and Certain Other Vegetables
Ingredients
Directions
Select thoroughly ripe potatoes before they sprout.
Remove the eyes or germs from the potatoes.
Keep the potatoes away from air to maintain firmness.
For carrots and turnips, cut away or destroy the growing parts.
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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Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together8,002 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together3,107 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
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Potato + turniptop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together562 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the potato
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip):
- Parsnipfits better
- Leekfits better
- Beetrootfits better
- Potatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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