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Stuffed Potatoes

Stuffed potatoes filled with mashed potato, cream, cheese, and eggs, baked until hot.

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 ↓

Stuffed Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Bake the potatoes

  1. Scrub and bake the potatoes until done.

  2. Cut a round piece off the top of each potato.

  3. Carefully scoop out the inside, keeping the skins intact.

Make the filling

  1. Mash the potato insides smoothly and mix in salt, pepper, cream, cheese, and beaten eggs.

  2. Beat the mixture until creamy.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the potato skins with the mixture and place them upright in a baking pan.

  2. Bake until scalding hot 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 + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Cream + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  4. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Pepper + cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the edible shell and the mashed filling base.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to make the mashed filling smooth.
Eggs
Bind the filling and help it set as it heats.
Cheese
Adds savoury flavour and richness to the filling.

The step that matters

Carefully scoop out the inside, keeping the skins intact. Thin potato skins tear easily. A torn shell cannot hold the filling upright, so the scooping needs a gentle hand and a spoon kept close to the skin.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Spinachfits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, cream, cheese, 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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