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To Preserve Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and lime work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 424 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

To Preserve Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA warm oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dip whole potatoes in boiling water for 1-2 minutes to kill the germ near the skin.

  2. Dry the potatoes in a warm oven.

  3. Store the dried potatoes in sacks or casks in a dry place, protected from frost.

  4. Alternatively, peel and grate the potatoes into a pulp.

  5. Squeeze out the water using coarse cloths and a press to form flat cakes.

  6. Dry the cakes thoroughly and store for later use.

  7. Optionally, add a piece of lime to the boiling water to improve texture.

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 + limetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together424 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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