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Raw Potato Pancakes

A skillet‑cooked pancake made from grated potatoes, eggs, salt, and crushed crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,978 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raw Potato Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine grated potatoes, beaten eggs, salt, and crushed crackers. Mix well until combined.

  2. Heat a well-greased skillet over medium heat.

Cook

  1. Pour the mixture into the skillet, spreading it thin with the back of a spoon.

  2. Cook until golden brown on both sides.

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. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the pancake and give it a starchy, tender interior.
Eggs
Bind the grated potato together so the pancake holds its shape.
Crackers
Absorb excess moisture and add starch to help the pancake hold together.

The step that matters

Spreading the mixture thin in the skillet. Grated potato releases water and is slow to cook through. A thin layer cooks evenly and lets the surface brown before the centre stays raw.

“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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