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Potato Patties

A baked dish of mashed potatoes formed into patties, flavored with mushroom ketchup, lemon peel, herbs, and topped with breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,571 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Potato Patties

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. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Butter the pans and sprinkle breadcrumbs inside.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the pans with nicely mashed potatoes flavored with mushroom ketchup, grated lemon peel, and savory herbs.

  2. Add olive oil or fresh butter and sift more breadcrumbs on top.

  3. Bake in the oven until brown.

  4. Remove from pans and serve.

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. Mushroom + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Potato + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together968 recipes

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

  5. Potato + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Form the main body of the patty, giving a soft, moist interior.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust on the outside of the patties.
Olive oil or fresh butter
Adds fat that promotes browning and a rich flavor on the surface.
Mushroom ketchup
Adds savory, umami depth to the potato filling.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, mushroom, ketchup, olive):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Red currantfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, mushroom, ketchup, olive. 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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