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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Kellogg, E. E. (Ella Ervilla) · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 1 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and parsnip share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Thanksgiving Menus

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Tomato Soup with Pasta d'ltalia

  2. Stuffed Potatoes Canned Asparagus

  3. Pulp Succotash Celery

  4. Graham Grits

  5. Fruit Rolls Graham Puffs Buns

  6. Canned Peaches

  7. Pumpkin Pie

  8. Baked Chestnuts Grape Apples

  9. Fresh Fruits

  10. Vegetable Oyster Soup

  11. Potato Puff Roasted Sweet Potatoes

  12. Parsnip Stewed with Celery

  13. Beet Salad

  14. Boiled Wheat with Raisins

  15. Cream Crisps Whole-Wheat Bread

  16. Crescents with Peach Jelly

  17. Canned Fruit

  18. Cranberry Tarls Almonds and Pecans

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

417Calories
15 gProtein
16 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Oyster6 medium (84g)81
Parsnip1/2 cup (78g)55
Soupnot 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.

By Kellogg, E. E. (Ella Ervilla). 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. Sweet potato + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + parsniptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together353 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Oyster + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together229 recipes

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

  4. Oyster + sweet potatotop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Potato + sweet potatotop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 (oyster, sweet potato, parsnip):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Okrafits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, sweet potato, parsnip. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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