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Potatoes with Nuts

A baked casserole of sliced potatoes layered with nuts, breadcrumbs, and milk, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potatoes with Nuts

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

  2. Grease a baking pan.

  3. Mix together the chopped nuts and bread crumbs, then place in the greased pan.

Assemble and bake

  1. Layer the cold sliced potatoes and the nut mixture alternately, finishing with the crumb mixture.

  2. Season the milk with salt and pepper, then pour it over the layered mixture.

  3. Bake for one hour.

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

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

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

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Nuts + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Bread + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the casserole, becoming tender while absorbing the seasoned milk.
Milk
Provides moisture that softens the potatoes and forms a creamy binding liquid as it bakes.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping and absorb some moisture from the layers.
Chopped nuts
Add crunch and a toasted, nutty flavour to the layers.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasfits better
  3. Peanutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, potato, milk, 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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