Name: Btuffbd Potatoes
Ingredients: equal-sized potatoes; cooked meat, finely chopped; seasoning to taste

Why it works: Potato and meat work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 786 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Btuffbd Potatoes

Ingredients

equal-sized potatoes
cooked meat, finely chopped
seasoning to taste

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Bake the potatoes

Bake the potatoes at 400°F (200°C) until done.
While still hot, cut off a small piece from the end of each potato.
Scoop out the inside and mash it.

Fill and brown

Mix the mashed potato with half the quantity of finely chopped, highly seasoned cooked meat.
Fill the potato skins slightly above the edge.
Place them back in the oven to brown the tops.

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.

Potato + meattop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together786 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes: Form the edible shell and the mashed filling that holds the meat.
Cooked meat: Adds savoury flavour and substance to the mashed potato filling.

“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.