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Mirette Potatoes

Mirette Potatoes are sliced potatoes cooked with butter, milk, herbs, and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mirette Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and slice the cold potatoes.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the potatoes, butter, mixed herbs, and milk.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, and fried shallot.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook gently for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.

  2. Before serving, squeeze lemon juice over the potatoes.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

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 dish and soften into a tender, starchy base.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps coat the potatoes as they cook.
Milk
Provides moisture so the potatoes cook gently without drying out.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the buttery, starchy flavour.

The step that matters

Cook gently for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Milk and butter scorch easily over direct heat, and the milk solids can catch on the pan base. Gentle heat and regular stirring keep the potatoes moist and prevent burning.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, milk, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, shallot, lemon):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, milk, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, shallot, lemon. 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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