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Louisville Sweet Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Towanda, Pa. Christ church. Young ladies society. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Louisville Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil sweet potatoes, cake off the skin and slice lengthwise ; put in a baking dish a layer of potatoes, then sprinkle sugar over them and a little butter, then another layer, and so on until the dish is filled , add a little water, put in the oven and bake a light brown. This is very good and a nice way to use cold sweet potatoes.

  2. Miss A. M. G. CHEESE OMELET. Butter the sides of a deep dish, cover the bottom with thin slices of cheese, put upon this very thin slices of bread, well buttered, a little red pepper and mustard, another layer of cheese, and just be • fore putting in the oven, beat the yolk of an egg in a cup of cream . and pour into the dish. Bake half an hour, or until it is nicely browned. Miss A. M. G.

  3. VEGETABLES. 23

  4. ONIONS WITH CREAM. Boil the onions, putting them into boiling salted water, with a little milk added, until tender ; drain and put them into a stewpan, then add a little cream, pepper, a few sprinkles of flour and a little butter

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

101Calories
2 gProtein
6 gFat
12 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6

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

By Towanda, Pa. Christ church. Young ladies society. [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.

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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. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  2. Cream + oniontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,827 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Cream + peppertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and onion barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,827 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the onion

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

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

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