Name: Puree of Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon butter; 1 tablespoon hour; 4 medium sized sweet potatoes; salt; pepper

Why it works: Sweet potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,015 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Puree of Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

4 medium sized sweet potatoes, 1 pt. milk, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon Hour, salt and pepper to season ; boil the potatoes un- til very tender and then remove the jackets, and press through a colander or a potato ricer; put milk on to boil in double boiler; rub butter and flour together until smooth; add to the milk; then add potatoes; stir until thoroughly mixed; add salt and pepper as needed; serve with toasted crackers or croutons.
Miss Flora McNett.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

269Calories

5 gProtein

12 gFat

38 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
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 Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary 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.

Sweet potato + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,015 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Butter + sweet potatotop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,491 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together85,593 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).