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Nutmeato Hash

A hash of cold baked potatoes, nutmeato, and optional tomatoes, seasoned with sage and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Nutmeato Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Mix and season

  1. Chop together the cold baked potatoes, nutmeato, and tomatoes until thoroughly mixed.

  2. If desired, add finely sifted sage.

  3. Season with coarse sea salt.

Bake

  1. Transfer the mixture to a baking dish and bake until brown.

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 + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  2. Potato + sagetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together386 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Tomato + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together417 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

Cold baked potatoes
Provide the starchy bulk that holds the hash together and browns on the surface.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and a touch of acidity to the mixture.

The step that matters

Bake until brown. Browning comes from dry heat reacting the starches and sugars on the surface, which builds flavour and a crisp edge. Pulling the dish too early leaves it pale, soft, and bland.

Swap the tomato

The recipe marks tomato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, sage):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, sage. 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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