Name: Potato and Cress Salad
Ingredients: one bunch of water cress; one tablespoonful of onion juice; six cold baked potatoes

Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potato and Cress Salad

Ingredients

one bunch of water cress
one tablespoonful of onion juice
six cold baked potatoes

Directions

Prepare

Take one bunch of watercress, wash carefully, and lay it around the platter.
Dice six cold baked potatoes.

Dress and serve

Mix the diced potatoes thoroughly with French dressing that has been added one tablespoonful of onion juice.
Heap the potatoes in the center of the watercress.
Garnish with parsley and slices of hard-boiled eggs.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

205Calories

6 gProtein

0 gFat

47 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Water	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.

By Olive M. Hulse. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold baked potatoes: Provide the starchy base that holds the dressing and forms the body of the salad.
Watercress (in the method): Adds a fresh, peppery flavour and a crisp green contrast to the soft potatoes.
Onion juice: Adds sharp aromatic flavour to the French dressing that coats the potatoes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.