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A yeast-based dough made with potatoes, sugar, salt, and boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the yeast in warm water overnight.

  2. In the morning, grate the potatoes.

Make the dough

  1. Add the grated potatoes, sugar, and salt to the boiling water.

  2. When the mixture cools, add the yeast and cover well.

  3. Let it rise in a warm place.

  4. Move it to a cool place.

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.

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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. Potato + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Yeast
Ferments the dough, producing gas that makes it rise and gives it a light texture.
Potatoes
Add starch and moisture, helping the dough stay soft and tender.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast so fermentation starts and proceeds steadily.

The step that matters

Adding the yeast after the mixture cools. Yeast is killed by very hot liquid, so the boiling mixture must cool before the yeast goes in. Adding it too early can stop the rise entirely.

“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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