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Stuffed Potatoes

Baked potatoes filled with mashed potato, cheese, bacon, or egg white.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Bake the potatoes until tender.

  2. Cut them open and remove the flesh from the shell.

  3. Mash the potato flesh and season with salt and pepper.

Fill and brown

  1. Fill the potato shells with the mashed mixture.

  2. Top with cheese slices, bacon, or beaten egg white.

  3. Return to the oven and brown.

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

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

  2. Potato + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together959 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,253 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy base that mashes into a soft, fluffy filling.
Cheese slices
Melt into the filling and brown on top, adding richness and savory flavor.
Bacon
Adds salty, savory flavor and crisp texture when browned.
Beaten egg white
Helps the topping set and brown lightly in the oven.

The step that matters

Return to the oven and brown. Too little heat or too long a wait lets the filling cool and dry out. A hot oven melts the cheese and browns the surface, so the topping should go back in promptly.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, egg, pepper. 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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