Name: Turnips with Potatoes
Ingredients: equal quantity of hot mashed turnips; equal quantity of hot mashed potatoes

Why it works: Turnip and potato work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 562 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Turnips with Potatoes

Ingredients

equal quantity of hot mashed turnips
equal quantity of hot mashed potatoes

Directions

Mash the turnips until smooth.
Add an equal amount of hot mashed potatoes to the turnips. Mix well and serve in a heated dish.

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.

Turnip + potatotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together562 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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What each ingredient does

Turnips: Provide the bulk of the dish and a mild, slightly peppery flavour.
Potatoes: Add starch and body, giving the mash a smoother, creamier 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.