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To Roast Potatos Under Meat

Roasted potatoes cooked under a roasting meat, basted with drippings, served around the meat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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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 ↓

To Roast Potatos Under Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place potatoes under the meat that is roasting.

  2. Baste them with some of the drippings.

  3. When browned on one side, turn them to brown the other side.

  4. Serve them around the meat or in a small dish.

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 + 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
Starchy base that softens inside while the exterior browns in the drippings.
Drippings from roasting meat
Fat that carries heat to the potatoes and promotes browning and savory flavor.

The step that matters

Turning the potatoes when browned on one side. Potatoes browned only on the top can stay pale and soft underneath. Turning them exposes the other surface to the hot fat, so both sides brown evenly and develop a crisp crust.

“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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