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Austeian Potatoes

Baked potato slices seasoned with butter, lemon, salt, and paprika.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,230 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Austeian Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash, peel, and slice the potatoes into 1/8 inch slices.

  2. Cover the sliced potatoes with cold water and let them stand for 15 minutes.

  3. Drain the potatoes and cook them in boiling salted water for 2 minutes.

  4. Drain again and spread the potatoes in a buttered baking pan.

Bake

  1. Bake until the potatoes are soft, basting twice with the melted butter mixed with lemon juice, salt, and paprika.

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 + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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 turn soft and tender when baked.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture and helps the potatoes brown as they bake.
Lemon juice
Adds a bright acidity that balances the richness of the butter.

The step that matters

Basting with the butter mixture. Basting twice during baking keeps the surface moist so the potatoes do not dry out or scorch before they become soft throughout.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Mangofits about as well
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, butter. 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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