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Broiled Potatoes

A simple side dish of sliced boiled potatoes seasoned and broiled with butter, parsley, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Broiled Potatoes

Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Broiled Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the cold boiled potatoes into ½-inch thick pieces.

  2. Season the potatoes with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Dip the seasoned potatoes into clarified butter.

  4. Arrange the potatoes on a double broiler.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the potatoes on both sides over low heat until done.

  2. Serve with a piece of butter.

  3. Optionally mix in chopped parsley and a few drops of lemon juice.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold boiled potatoes
Provide the starchy base that becomes tender inside while the outside crisps.
Clarified butter
Carries heat evenly and promotes browning on the potato surface without burning as quickly as whole butter.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour when served on the hot potatoes.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the buttery flavour.

The step that matters

Broil on both sides over low heat until done. Potato slices can dry out or scorch unevenly under a broiler. Turning them and using gentle heat lets the centres heat through while the surfaces brown evenly.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, butter, parsley, lemon):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, butter, parsley, lemon. 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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