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Cheese Potatoes in Jacket

Cheese Potatoes in Jacket are baked potatoes filled with a creamy cheese mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cheese Potatoes in Jacket

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Rub potatoes with melted butter.

  2. Bake until thoroughly done.

  3. Cut potatoes in half lengthwise.

  4. Scoop out the insides.

Make the filling

  1. Mash until smooth.

  2. Beat in butter, milk, salt, and pepper until fluffy.

  3. Fold in egg whites.

Fill, brown and serve

  1. Refill potato shells with the mixture.

  2. Smooth the tops.

  3. Place a slice of cheese on each.

  4. Return to the oven and brown for about 10 minutes.

  5. Serve immediately.

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.

Explore the science

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the bulk and starchy body that holds the fluffy filling inside the shells.
Egg whites
Beaten whites add air and help the filling set light and fluffy when heated.
Milk or cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the mashed filling smooth and soft.
American cheese
Melts over the filling and browns in the oven, adding flavor and a golden top.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Beaten egg whites trap air that gives the filling its lift. Overmixing or stirring them vigorously deflates that foam, so the filling turns dense instead of fluffy. Fold gently so the air stays in.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, butter, milk, cheese):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits less well
  4. Tomatofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, butter, milk, cheese. 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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