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Saratoga Creamed Potatoes

Creamed potatoes made with boiled, peeled, and chopped potatoes, butter, cream, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Saratoga Creamed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Boil potatoes in their skins in cold water with a little salt until tender.

  2. Refrigerate the cooked potatoes for two to three days without peeling.

  3. Peel and finely chop the potatoes.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a generous amount of butter in a frying pan.

  2. Add the chopped potatoes to the pan and season with salt and black pepper.

  3. Pour in the cream and mix well.

  4. Cover and cook for ten minutes, then 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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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 their starch thickens the cream as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavour and helps the potatoes brown lightly.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, turning the potatoes into a creamy coating.

The step that matters

Refrigerating the cooked potatoes. Chilling cooked potatoes for days changes their starch, making them firmer and easier to chop finely without turning mushy. Peeling them only after chilling keeps them intact.

“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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