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Roasted Potatoes

Roasted potatoes are potatoes roasted in an oven with butter rubbed on the skin.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,456 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Roasted Potatoes

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. Clean the potatoes thoroughly.

  2. Nick a small piece out of the skin.

Roast

  1. Roast in a 400°F (200°C) oven.

  2. Rub a little butter over the skin to make them crisp.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy flesh that becomes fluffy inside while the skin roasts.
Butter
Adds fat to the skin, helping it brown and crisp in the oven.

The step that matters

Nick a small piece out of the skin. The nick lets steam escape while the potato roasts, so it does not build pressure and split the skin unevenly. Keeping the skin intact until it is crisp gives a better texture.

“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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