Why it works: Potato and ham work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 127 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓
Sausage Stewed
Ingredients
Directions
Slice the cold, partly-boiled potatoes and cover the bottom of a stewpan.
Add a layer of sliced sausages on top of the potatoes.
Place a few thin slices of ham over the sausages.
Pour gravy or water over the layers.
Stew very gently until heated through.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Potato + hamtop 24% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together127 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
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