Name: Pinic Potatoes
Ingredients: Potatoes; Coarse sea salt; Nut milk; Tender cabbage, chopped finely; Roasted almond meal; Celery, chopped; Lemon juice; Chopped parsley; 1 hard-boiled egg

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pinic Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Bake as many potatoes as desired.
Carefully cut the cap off the ends and remove the insides with a teaspoon.
Add coarse sea salt and nut milk, then whip until light with a fork.
Mix in chopped cabbage, roasted almond meal, chopped celery, lemon juice, chopped parsley, and the hard-boiled egg.
Fold the mixture into the whipped potato and fill the potato shells.
Replace the lid and garnish with a sprig of parsley.

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.

Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,810 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,467 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,855 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Cabbage + celerytop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,840 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, milk, almond, celery, lemon, parsley, egg):

Carrotfits better
Spinachfits better
Asparagusfits better
Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, milk, almond, celery, lemon, parsley, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.