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Special Baked Potatoes

Baked potatoes are scooped, mashed with butter, sweet cream, pepper, and salt, then refilled and reheated.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Special Baked Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Cut a cross in the flat side of each baked potato and turn back the corners.

  2. Carefully scrape out the contents into a bowl.

Make the filling

  1. Mash the potatoes quickly or use a ricer, then season with pepper, salt, butter, and sweet cream.

Refill and serve

  1. Refill the potato shells with the mixture, sprinkle with pepper, and reheat in the oven.

  2. Serve immediately.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Baked potatoes
Provide the starchy body of the filling and the shells that hold it.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and richness, making the mashed potato smooth and creamy.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour, enriching the mashed potato and helping it stay soft.

The step that matters

Mash the potatoes quickly or use a ricer. Overworking warm potato releases starch and makes the filling gluey and dense. Mashing briefly or using a ricer keeps the texture light and fluffy.

“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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