Why it works: Potato and biscuit work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 137 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Yeast, Bread, Rolls, Gems, Etc
Ingredients
Directions
7 Potato Yeast— No. 3
.. 7
BROWN BBEAD,
Brown Bread — No. 1 8
Brown Bread — No. 2 9
Brown Bread— No. 3 9
licA\n Bread — No. 4 9
Biscuit (raised) — No. 1 9
Biscuit (raised)— No. 2. . . 10
Brown Corn Bread 10
Boston Brown Bread 10
Baking Powder Biscuit. .. . 10
Coleman Bannock 11
Corn Meal Puffs 11
French EoUs 11
Graham Bread — No. 1. . . . 11
Graham Bread — No. 2 12
Graham Bread — No. 3 12
Graham Gems — No. 1 12
Graham Gems — No. 2 12
Graham Gems — No. 3 13
Johnny Cake — No. 1 13
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Biscuit | 1 medium (45g) | 166 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Cake | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Potato + biscuittop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together137 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Bread + biscuittop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together319 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together434 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
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 (bread, biscuit):
- Arrowrootfits better
- Lettucefits better
- Spinachfits better
- Potatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against bread, biscuit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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