Name: Stuffed Potatoes
Ingredients: medium sized potatoes; milk; butter; salt

Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Stuffed Potatoes

one stuffed potato per person

Ingredients

medium sized potatoes
milk
butter
salt

Directions

Prepare

Wash the potatoes with a brush.
Bake the potatoes until done.

Stuff and serve

Cut each potato lengthwise on one side and scoop out the insides into a pan.
Mash the insides with milk, butter, and salt.
Keep the mixture hot and refill the potato skins, pressing them together.
Serve one stuffed potato per person.

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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,611 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes: Provide the starchy flesh that is scooped out, mashed, and refilled into the skins.
Milk: Adds moisture and softness to the mashed potato filling.
Butter: Adds fat for richer flavour and a smoother, silkier texture.

“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.