Name: Fancy Creamed Potatoes with Cheese
Ingredients: 2 cups rice that has boiled stiff; half lengthwise; 53 fried apples; 1 tbs; 1 egg into; salt; pepper

Why it works: Rice and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,379 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Fancy Creamed Potatoes with Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Cut into dice shape cold boiled potatoes ; put into a stew pan; cover with cream; add a generous quantity of butter and enough corn starch to thicken. Be sure that corn starch is thoroughly cooked; then add a generous amount of grated cheese. Have a frying pan with plenty of melted butter; put potatoes into pan and fry 8 minutes. The flavor of potatoes is impaired if allowed to cook too long.
Mrs. W. A. Mather.
SWEET POTATOES, SOUTHERN STYLE. Boil sweet potatoes not quite done; remove; pare; cut in half lengthwise; place in baking dish. Sprinkle with butter and brown sugar. Bake until slightly brown, serve hot. Mrs. R. W. Cranston.
FRIED APPLES WITH ONIONS. 1 tbs. butter, 1 tbs. lard, apples, onions, salt and pepper. Heat fat. Slice in apples, then onions. Season with salt and pepper and fry until the onions are done.
Mrs. J. G. Palmer.
RICE BALLS. Take 2 cups rice that has boiled stiff or left-over rice, drop 1 egg into it, mix well. Then make balls the shape of an egg. Drop these balls into hot lard. Cook until brown.
Mrs. Albert Schaller.
STUFFED EGG PLANT. Take small egg plant, quarter and take out inside. Leave end of stem on shell. Boil in salt water until tender, mash, season well with celery, red peppers, salt, butter and bread crumbs. Put back in shells and bake. Bread crumbs in top. Mrs. Douglas Webster.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

385Calories

11 gProtein

6 gFat

72 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Apple	1 medium (182g)	95
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
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 Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog]. 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.

Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,379 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Rice + appletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,311 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Apple + peppertop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,026 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,350 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Apple + eggtop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,461 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).