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To Boil New Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and mint work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 363 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

To Boil New Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the new potatoes in cold water.

  2. Plunge them into boiling water seasoned with salt and a sprig of mint.

  3. Boil quickly until a fork easily goes through the potatoes.

  4. Strain off the water, dry the potatoes, and serve.

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 + minttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together363 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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