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Pommes De Terre Farcies Aux Fines Herbes.

Herb-stuffed potatoes baked with breadcrumbs, thyme, chives, parsley, shallot, egg yolk, cream, butter, pepper, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 450 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Pommes De Terre Farcies Aux Fines Herbes.

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Wash the potatoes and cut a small piece off the top of one side so they can stand steadily.

  3. Scoop out the center of the potatoes carefully.

Make and fill

  1. Prepare the stuffing by mixing breadcrumbs, herbs, pepper, and salt.

  2. Moisten the stuffing with cream and the yolk of egg.

  3. Fill the potatoes with the stuffing and place them in a buttered sauté pan.

Bake

  1. Brush the potatoes with melted butter and bake for 20 minutes.

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. Chive + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Thyme + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Potato + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together611 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Breadcrumbs
Absorb the cream and egg to form a moist, cohesive stuffing that holds its shape.
Yolk of egg
Binds the stuffing together and adds richness as it sets during baking.
Cream
Moistens the breadcrumbs so the stuffing stays tender rather than dry.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the potato skins brown in the oven.
Round new potatoes
Serve as the edible vessel that holds the stuffing while it bakes.

The step that matters

Scooping out the center carefully. Leaving a sound wall of potato around the cavity keeps the shell intact so it holds the stuffing and stands upright without tearing during baking.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (thyme, chive, shallot, parsley, egg, cream, butter):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against thyme, chive, shallot, parsley, egg, 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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