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Hashed Potatoes in Cream

A dish of minced potatoes simmered in sweet cream, seasoned with sea salt and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter 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 ↓

Hashed Potatoes in Cream

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the raw potatoes into small pieces.

  2. Put the minced potatoes into a clean saucepan and cover with rich sweet cream.

Cook and serve

  1. Simmer slowly until the potatoes are cooked.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and a lump of butter.

  3. Serve in a deep vegetable dish.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Raw potatoes
Form the bulk of the dish, softening as they simmer to a hash texture.
Rich sweet cream
Cooks the potatoes gently and forms a creamy, moist sauce around them.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for a smooth finish and flavour.

The step that matters

Simmer slowly until the potatoes are cooked. Gentle heat lets the potatoes soften through while the cream thickens without scorching or boiling over. Rapid boiling can break the cream and leave the potatoes unevenly cooked.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Onionfits about as well
  3. Leekfits less well
  4. Chivefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, butter. 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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