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Hashed Meat and Potatoes

A dish of chopped cooked meat mixed with mashed potatoes, seasoned with salt, and fried until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,668 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Hashed Meat and Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Soak the bits of cooked meat in cold water.

  2. Stew the soaked meat until tender in just enough water to cover them.

  3. Chop the meat finely.

Mix the hash

  1. Mash an equal or larger quantity of hot potatoes.

  2. Mix the mashed potatoes with the chopped meat.

  3. Season the mixture with coarse sea salt.

  4. If the mixture is too dry, add a little of the stewing water.

Brown and serve

  1. Fry a slice of fat pork in a skillet.

  2. Add the rendered fat to the mixture.

  3. Brown the hash in the same skillet.

  4. Turn the hash out, brown side up, onto a hot platter.

  5. Keep the hash warm for serving.

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. Potato + porktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Meat + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,208 recipes

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

  3. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 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

Bits of cooked meat
Provides the main savoury flavour and bulk of the hash.
Hot potatoes
Mashed, they bind with the meat and give the hash a soft, moist body.
Fat pork or butter
Fat carries flavour and helps the hash brown well in the skillet.

The step that matters

Brown the hash in the skillet. Browning needs enough fat and an undisturbed hot surface to form a crust; a too-wet mixture steams instead, so the hash stays pale and soft.

“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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