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Potatoes En Casserole

A baked potato casserole with butter, milk or cream, paprika, pepper, salt, and optional cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.) · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potatoes En Casserole

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Boil twelve medium-sized potatoes in their skins.

  2. Pare the potatoes, place them on a board and chop them with a knife.

  3. Season the potatoes with salt, pepper, and diced sweet Spanish pepper, and rub a hint of onion on the casserole.

Assemble

  1. Sift one tablespoon of flour through the potatoes and add a sprinkle of paprika.

  2. Put the potatoes in a casserole dish.

  3. Add a generous piece of butter.

  4. Fill up with rich milk, or better, cream.

Cook and brown

  1. Cover and cook until a rich sauce is formed.

  2. Just before serving, remove the cover and brown the top.

  3. If desired, sprinkle cheese over the top.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

777Calories
19 gProtein
10 gFat
150 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Hot Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 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 Home for the Friendless (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.

Explore the science

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 + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Flour + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + chocolatetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Potato + chocolatetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together220 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the dish and soak up the sauce as they cook.
Flour
Thickens the milk or cream into a smooth, rich sauce.
Butter (in the method)
Adds fat for richness and a fuller flavor to the sauce.
Milk or cream (in the method)
Provides the liquid that becomes the sauce; cream adds more richness.

The step that matters

Cover and cook until a rich sauce is formed. Flour needs enough gentle heat and time to thicken the liquid fully; too little cooking leaves the sauce thin and floury tasting, while too much heat can scorch the milk on the bottom.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, chocolate, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, chocolate, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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