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Stuffed Savoury Potatoes

A baked potato filled with a breadcrumb and herb mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 450 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Stuffed Savoury Potatoes

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 the potatoes

  1. Wash the potatoes.

  2. Peel the potatoes.

  3. Scoop out the centers without breaking them.

Make the stuffing

  1. Mix breadcrumbs, parsley, thyme, chives, shallot, salt, and pepper in a bowl.

  2. Moisten the mixture with cream.

  3. Add the egg yolk to the mixture.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the potatoes with the stuffing.

  2. Place the stuffed potatoes in a buttered sauté pan.

  3. Brush the potatoes with oiled butter.

  4. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for about 20 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. Chive + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

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

  4. Thyme + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 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 hollow shell that holds the stuffing and cooks to a soft, tender interior.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb the cream and egg, giving the stuffing body and a light, crumbly texture.
Egg yolk
Binds the stuffing so it holds its shape when spooned into the potatoes.
Cream
Moistens the breadcrumbs so the stuffing stays soft rather than dry.
Shallot
Adds a mild, savoury onion flavour to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Scoop out the centers without breaking them. Thin walls can tear when the centers are hollowed, and a broken shell lets the stuffing leak and the potato lose its shape during baking.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsley, thyme, chive, shallot, pepper, cream, egg):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, thyme, chive, shallot, pepper, cream, 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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