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Browned Sweet Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and beef work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 145 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Browned Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the sweet potatoes with their skins on for about 20 minutes.

  2. Peel the sweet potatoes carefully.

  3. Pour off nearly all the fat from the top of the beef dripping.

  4. Lay the potatoes in the pan around the meat and baste them when you baste the beef.

  5. Drain the potatoes well in a colander.

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. Sweet potato + beeftop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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