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Mashed Carrots

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mashed Carrots

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select young carrots and clean them without scraping.

  2. Cut the carrots into slices and boil in salted water until tender.

  3. Drain the carrots and mash them through a fine sieve.

  4. Return the mashed carrots to the heat and slowly evaporate the moisture.

  5. Finish with a chunk of butter and sweet cream, then season with salt and white pepper.

  6. Serve as you would mashed turnips or with boiled beef.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Carrot + white peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Carrot + buttertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,083 recipes

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

  4. Cream + white peppertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,439 recipes
  5. Butter + white peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the carrot

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cream, white pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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