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Cheesed Potatoes

Cheesed potatoes are mashed potatoes mixed with egg yolk, cheese, butter, and cream, formed into croquettes, and baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheesed 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.

Prepare

  1. Boil the potatoes until tender.

  2. Mash the potatoes and mix in the egg yolk, grated cheese, butter, and cream.

Shape and bake

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Bake the croquettes at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Potato + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together959 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

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 croquettes, giving them a soft, starchy interior once mashed.
Egg yolk
Binds the mashed potato so the croquettes hold their shape.
Grated cheese
Adds rich flavor and helps the croquettes brown as they bake.
Butter
Adds fat for richer flavor and a softer, smoother texture.
Cream
Adds moisture, keeping the mashed potato soft and easy to shape.

The step that matters

Form the mixture into croquettes. The mash must be firm enough to hold its shape. If it is too wet or warm, the croquettes can slump or crack, so let it cool slightly before shaping.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cheese, butter, cream):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Chivefits less well
  4. Onionfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cheese, butter, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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