Name: Escalloped Potatoes
Ingredients: one quart cold boiled potatoes in very thin slices; salt; pepper; parsley

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Escalloped Potatoes

Ingredients

one quart cold boiled potatoes in very thin slices
salt
pepper
parsley

Directions

Cut one quart cold boiled potatoes in very thin slices, season with salt and pepper. Butter a dish, cover the bottom with a layer of cream sauce and a layer of potatoes and sprinkle with chopped parsley. Next spread a layer of sauce and of potatoes until the dish is filled. Have the cream sauce for the last layer and over this sprinkle bread crumbs mixed with little bits of butter. Bake twenty minutes. Mrs. C. H. Betts.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

168Calories

5 gProtein

0 gFat

39 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By North End Club (Chicago, Ill.). 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.

Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,855 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,305 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).