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Potato Cheese-cakes

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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 Cheese-cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. One pound of mashed potatoes, quarter of a pound of currants, quar- ter of a pound of sugar and butter and four eggs ; mix well together ; bake them in pattypans, having first lined the pans with puff paste.

  2. MISCELLANEOUS DESSERT DISHES. 565

  3. Four ounces of grated cheese, two ounces of butter, two ounces of bread (without crust), half a gill of milk, one-third of a teaspoonful each of salt and mustard, a pinch of cayenne pepper, two eggs. Crumb the bread and boil soft in the milk ; add the butter, mustard, salt, pepper and cheese, and the yolks of the eggs ; beat thoroughly, then stir in the whites of the eggs, whisked to a stiff froth ; pour in a soup plate or in small squares of stiff white paper pinched at the corners, and bake fifteen minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1192Calories
40 gProtein
37 gFat
178 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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 Goff, May Perrin, [from old catalog] ed. 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

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

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, cheese, butter, bread, sugar, milk, pepper):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Currantthe original

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

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