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Broiled Potatoes

Broiled potatoes are sliced potatoes browned in a broiler, served with butter and coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Broiled Potatoes

Why it works: Potato and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,456 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Broiled Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Parboil the potatoes until slightly tender.

  2. Slice the potatoes.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the slices until they are nicely browned.

  2. Serve with butter and coarse sea salt.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Starchy base that softens during parboiling and browns to a crisp, golden surface under the broiler.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the potatoes and carries flavor across their surface.

The step that matters

Broil the slices until nicely browned. Browning comes from surface heat driving Maillard reactions and caramelization. Potato slices burn quickly under a broiler, so watch them closely while they darken evenly.

“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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