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Potatoes Browned

Mashed potatoes baked with egg yolk until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,978 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Potatoes Browned

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Mash the potatoes until smooth.

  2. Transfer the mashed potatoes to a serving dish.

  3. Smooth the top of the potatoes.

  4. Brush the top with the egg yolk.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for 10 minutes until browned.

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 + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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 dish, giving a soft, creamy body that holds its shape when mashed.
Egg yolk
Brushed on top, it promotes browning and a glossy, golden surface in the oven.

The step that matters

Brush the top with the egg yolk. The yolk is what browns the surface. Brush it evenly, avoiding pooling at the edges, so the top colours uniformly rather than in patches.

“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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