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Baked Hash

A baked dish of meat, potatoes, and grated onion, finished with butter and garnished with toast and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Baked Hash

Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Hash

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a pan, combine the meat, potatoes, and grated onion.

  3. Add a little butter and mix well.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for thirty minutes.

  2. When done, fold it like an omelet and turn onto a hot dish.

  3. Garnish with points of toast and 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.

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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 + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  3. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Meat + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,594 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the hash and provide starch that becomes tender and soft when baked.
Meat
Provides savory flavor and substance, binding with the potatoes as the hash bakes.
Onion
Adds aroma and sweetness as it cooks, contributing moisture and flavor to the mixture.
Butter
Adds fat for richer flavor and helps the surface brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Fold it like an omelet and turn onto a hot dish. The hash must be fully set and firm after baking before folding, otherwise it will break apart. Turning it onto a hot dish keeps it warm for serving.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, potato, butter):

  1. Onionthe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Leekfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, potato, butter. 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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