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Pried Potatoes

Fried slices of cold potatoes coated in flour, pepper, and coarse sea salt, served with salt pork.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,668 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Pried Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice cold potatoes.

  2. Dredge the slices in flour, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  3. If using uncooked potatoes, pour boiling water over the slices and let them stand.

Fry

  1. Fry a few slices of salt pork in a pan.

  2. Wipe the potato slices dry and fry them in the same pan until golden, covering the bottom of the pan.

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.

Explore the science

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 + porktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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

  3. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pepper + porktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  5. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender inside while the outside fries crisp.
Flour
Coats the slices so they brown into a crisp, golden crust during frying.
Salt pork
Renders fat for frying and adds savory, smoky flavor to the potatoes.

The step that matters

Wipe the potato slices dry before frying. Surface moisture turns to steam in hot fat, which slows browning and can make the coating soggy. Dry slices sear and turn golden with a crisp crust.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, pepper, pork):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Turnipfits about as well
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, pepper, pork. 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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