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Potatoes for Breakfast or Lunch

A fried mixture of mashed potatoes, finely chopped cabbage, egg, butter, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,081 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potatoes for Breakfast or Lunch

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the cabbage very finely.

  2. Mash the potatoes.

  3. Mix the cabbage and potatoes with the egg, butter, pepper, and salt.

  4. Divide the mixture into pieces the size and shape of an egg.

Fry

  1. Fry the pieces in boiling lard or dripping until light brown.

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.

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.

  1. Cabbage + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together275 recipes

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

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Adds bulk and a fresh, slightly sweet vegetable texture to the fritters.
Potatoes
Mashed, they bind the mixture and give the fritters a soft, tender interior.
Egg
Binds the cabbage and potato together so the pieces hold their shape while frying.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing flavour and a tender crumb.

The step that matters

Fry in boiling lard or dripping. The fat must be hot enough to brown the outside quickly. If it is too cool, the fritters absorb grease, turn heavy and may fall apart before they set.

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

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

“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.

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