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Fancy Creamed Potatoes with Cheese

A side dish of diced boiled potatoes cooked in cream, butter, corn starch, and grated cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 938 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fancy Creamed Potatoes with Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place the diced cold boiled potatoes in a stew pan.

  2. Cover the potatoes with cream and add a generous amount of butter.

  3. Stir in enough corn starch to thicken the mixture, ensuring it is thoroughly cooked.

  4. Add a generous amount of grated cheese to the mixture.

Fry and serve

  1. In a frying pan, melt plenty of butter and add the potato mixture.

  2. Fry the potatoes for 8 minutes, being careful not to overcook them.

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 + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Butter + corntop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold boiled potatoes
Form the bulk of the dish and hold the creamy mixture together as they fry.
Cream
Provides moisture and richness, coating the potatoes as the mixture thickens.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the potatoes brown gently in the pan.
Corn starch
Thickens the cream so the mixture holds together rather than running loose.
Grated cheese
Adds savoury flavour and helps bind the mixture as it melts.

The step that matters

Fry the potatoes for 8 minutes. Frying too long dries the potatoes and can scorch the butter and cheese, while the starch-thickened cream needs enough heat to set. Watch closely and stop once the surface is golden.

“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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