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To Roast Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

To Roast Potatoes

Ingredients

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.

  1. Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Place large potatoes on a baking sheet, ensuring they are not too close to the heat source.

  3. Roast for 1 hour, checking occasionally to prevent burning.

  4. For large sweet potatoes, roast for 1 hour and 30 minutes, checking for doneness.

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 + sweet potatotop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 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

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