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Potato Patties

Potato patties are potato shells filled with a mixture of veal, ham, cream, spices, and mushroom catsup, then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Potato Patties

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Wash and scrape the rind off the potatoes.

  2. Cut off the top and scoop out the insides.

  3. Mix the potato insides with veal, ham, cream, nutmeg, lemon peel, salt, pepper, and mushroom catsup.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the potato shells with the mixture and replace the tops.

  2. Trim the bottoms slightly to help them stand upright.

  3. Place them in a pudding dish with butter at the bottom.

  4. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until heated through.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Potato + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the edible shells and bulk of the patties, holding the filling as they bake.
Veal
Adds savory meat body and a firm, tender texture to the filling.
Ham
Contributes salty, savory flavor that seasons the meat filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling soft and smooth.
Butter
Adds fat and flavor to the pan and helps the potato surfaces brown.

The step that matters

Trim the bottoms slightly. The potatoes must sit upright so the filling stays inside the shells. A flat base also gives stable contact with the dish while baking.

“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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