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Hashed Browned Potatoes

A dish of finely chopped boiled potatoes sautéed with butter, salt, pepper, and optional milk or kitchen bouquet.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Hashed Browned Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the cold boiled potatoes finely and dust with salt and pepper.

  2. Heat the butter in a frying pan until hot.

Cook

  1. Add the potatoes, spreading them evenly.

  2. If desired, add the milk or kitchen bouquet.

  3. Cook the potatoes over moderate heat for 10 to 15 minutes without stirring until browned.

  4. Fold and roll the potatoes like an omelet.

  5. Transfer to a heated dish and serve hot.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

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

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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 browns and crisps in the hot butter.
Butter
Conducts heat into the potatoes and adds richness and browning.
Milk
Adds a little moisture that softens the potato pieces slightly.

The step that matters

Cook without stirring until browned. Leaving the potatoes undisturbed lets a crust form on the pan surface. Stirring early breaks this crust and prevents even browning.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Tomatofits less well
  4. Asparagusfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, butter, milk. 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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