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Cheese Cones

Cheese cones are baked potato and cheese cups topped with breadcrumbs and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Cones

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. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

Shape the cones

  1. In a bowl, combine hot mashed potato, grated cheese, salt, and paprika.

  2. Mold the mixture into small cups and turn them out onto a buttered baking sheet.

Bake and serve

  1. Sprinkle the tops with grated bread crumbs and place a small piece of butter on each cone.

  2. Bake in the oven until browned and serve very hot.

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potato
Forms the body of the cones and keeps them moist inside while baking.
Grated cheese
Melts and browns on the surface, adding richness and savory flavor.
Butter
Adds fat that helps the tops brown and gives a richer finish.
Grated bread crumbs
Crisp up in the oven on top, adding a golden, crunchy surface.

The step that matters

Shaping the cones while the potato is hot. Hot mashed potato is pliable and holds its shape when pressed into cups. Once it cools and stiffens, it cracks and resists molding, so the cones may fall apart in the oven.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Tomatofits about as well
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Mustardfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, butter, bread. 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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