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Potato Pastry

Potato and blackberry dumplings are boiled potato pastry rounds filled with blackberries, served with rich sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,355 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Potato Pastry

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dough

  1. Cook the potatoes until tender, then thoroughly mash them while warm.

  2. Mix the mashed potatoes with the sifted flour and a pinch of salt.

  3. Roll out the mixture into rounds.

Fill and cook

  1. Fill each round with blackberries.

  2. Drop the filled rounds into boiling water and cook for 30 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve with a rich sauce.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Potato + saucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide starch and body, so the dough holds together and stays tender when mashed.
Flour
Gives the mashed potato mixture structure so the rounds keep their shape while boiling.
Blackberries
Add moisture and tart sweetness inside the dumplings as they cook.

The step that matters

Drop the filled rounds into boiling water and cook for 30 minutes. The water must be at a full boil when the dumplings go in so the dough sets quickly and does not absorb water or fall apart. Keeping the water boiling steadily through the cooking time helps the dumplings cook evenly.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sauce. 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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