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Potato Souffle

A baked potato soufflé with sweet and bitter almonds, lemon juice, sugar, eggs, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,655 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Potato Souffle

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cream the butter in a bowl.

  2. Add the egg yolks, beaten well with the sugar and the boiled potatoes, rubbed through a sieve.

  3. Mix in the grated sweet almonds, lemon juice, and grated lemon peel.

Bake

  1. Fill a well-buttered baking dish with the mixture.

  2. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 45 minutes.

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. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Potato + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

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

  3. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Potato + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled potatoes
Provide starch and body, giving the souffle a soft, light and moist crumb.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing tenderness and a smooth texture to the mixture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set on baking, giving the souffle its structure.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and helps the eggs blend smoothly into the base.
Sweet almonds
Add fat and nutty flavour, along with moisture and a tender texture.

The step that matters

Beating the egg yolks with sugar and potatoes. Egg yolks must be beaten well so they blend evenly into the base. Uneven mixing leaves streaks and an uneven, dense texture after baking.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, sugar, almond, butter, egg):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, sugar, almond, butter, egg. 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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