Why it works: Sweet potato and egg work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 843 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare sweet potatoes as usual.
Beat the yolks of two eggs into the ingredients.
Whisk the egg whites to a froth and add them last.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Sweet potato + eggtop 25% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together843 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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