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Savoury Potatoes

Baked potatoes stuffed with cheese, egg, and seasonings, then baked again and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Savoury 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 the potatoes

  1. Scrub the potatoes.

  2. Bake them at 400°F (200°C) until tender.

  3. Cut off the end of each potato.

  4. Scoop out the insides.

Make the filling

  1. Grate the cheese.

  2. Mix the cheese with the potato insides, egg yolk, and seasoning.

  3. Whip the egg white until stiff.

  4. Gently fold the whipped egg white into the potato mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the potatoes with the mixture.

  2. Place the stuffed potatoes on a baking sheet.

  3. Bake for about 20 minutes.

  4. Garnish with parsley 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 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
Provide the starchy base that is scooped out, mashed with the filling, and holds the stuffing.
Egg
The yolk enriches and binds the filling, while the whipped white adds air for a lighter texture.
Cheese
Adds richness and savory flavor to the filling and helps it brown in the oven.
Milk
Adds moisture so the potato filling stays soft and spreadable.

The step that matters

Fold in the whipped egg white gently. Whipped egg white traps air that gives the filling its lightness. Vigorous stirring deflates the foam, leaving a dense filling instead of a light, puffed one.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, cheese, milk, egg, pepper):

  1. Dillfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Thymefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, cheese, milk, egg, pepper. 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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