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Potato Ribbons

Fried strips of potato seasoned with salt, cayenne pepper, and white pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Potato Ribbons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash, dry, and peel the potatoes.

  2. Cut the potatoes into long strips, not too thin to avoid breaking.

Fry and season

  1. Place the strips in a frying basket and drop into hot fat.

  2. Fry until golden brown, then drain.

  3. Sprinkle with salt, cayenne, and white pepper.

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

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

  2. Pepper + white peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  3. Potato + white peppertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starch that crisps into the ribbon's golden, sturdy body when fried.
Hot fat
Transfers heat quickly to cook the potato and drive off moisture, producing browning and crispness.

The step that matters

Cutting the strips. Strips cut too thin are likely to break during frying and drop into the fat, while the strips need enough thickness to hold their shape and stay sturdy as they cook.

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, 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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