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Curried Potatoes and Apples

Fried potato and apple slices coated in curry-spiced breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Curried Potatoes and Apples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the cold potatoes.

  2. Peel and slice the sour apples.

  3. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

Fry

  1. Dip the potato slices in the egg, then coat with a mixture of breadcrumbs, chopped parsley, and curry powder.

  2. Fry the coated potatoes in hot fat until golden.

  3. Dust the apple slices with flour, then dip in egg, coat with breadcrumbs, and fry until golden.

Serve

  1. Arrange the potatoes and apples alternately on a serving dish.

  2. Season with Krona pepper, garnish with fried parsley in the center, 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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Parsley + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Potato + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together603 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the main body of the dish, becoming crisp and golden in the coating.
Sour apples
Add a tart contrast that balances the savory curry coating.
Eggs
Act as a binder so the breadcrumbs adhere to the slices.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.
Curry powder
Adds warm, aromatic spice flavor to the coating.
Flour
Dries the apple surface so the egg and breadcrumbs stick.

The step that matters

Frying the coated potatoes and apples in hot fat. The fat must be hot enough to crisp the breadcrumb coating quickly; if it is too cool, the coating absorbs excess fat and turns greasy and soggy before the inside is cooked.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, egg, parsley, flour, pepper):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, egg, parsley, flour, 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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