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Potato Pancakes

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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Potato Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grate six potatoes; two eggs, salt, flour to make a batter. Fry like other cakes. — Mrs. Henriette Buggeln, Williams, Ariz.

  2. One quart bread flour, two good tablespoons cottolene, two tablespoons sugar, salt, one-half compressed yeast cake, one pint new milk, previously scalded and cooled. Rub cottolene into flour, sugar and salt, add yeast cake and beat thoroughly. Should be about as stiff as batter can be beaten ; raise in a closely covered vessel. \Yhen light, beat down thoroughly, let rise. Continue this process three or more times — then toss lightly on a well floured board (but do not knead). The batter will shape itself into a dough which can be easily rolled. Roll about one-half inch thick, cut, butter one half, lap, let raise until light enouo-h to bake. Oven a Tittle hotter than for bread. — Mrs.

  3. T. A. Barney, New Haven, Conn.

  4. WILUAMS PUBIJC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 37

  5. To make about sixty. One pint water, one cup yeast, one tablespoon salt, one tablespoon sugar, one-half cup melted but- ter, one-half cup melted lard, good quart flour. Start in the morning, kneading down when light. At 4 o'clock p. m., make in rolls.

  6. Yeast. — Four tablespoons flour, two potatoes mashed, scald with potato water (about one quart), and when cool add yeast cake. — Mrs. Baker, Manistee, Mich.

  7. Sift three teaspoonfuls of baking powder with a quart of flour, adding two teaspoons of sugar and one of salt. Rub into this a tablespoonful of butter and stir in last of all, one well beaten egg. Mix to a dough with two cupfuls of cold sweet milk, roll out to half-inch thickness and cut in rounds about the size of a tea saucer. Spread softened butter over the tops, then fold one half over the other. Put them in a baking pan so they do not touch each other and bake until brown in a hot oven. — Mrs. George McDougall, Williams, Ariz.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1109Calories
32 gProtein
39 gFat
157 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Lard1 tbsp (12.8g)115
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Cakenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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. See the original page.

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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (bread, flour, sugar, milk, butter, egg):

  1. Leekfits about as well
  2. Sweet potatofits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, flour, sugar, milk, butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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