Why it works: Potato and white pepper work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 157 recipes. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓
Potato Ribbons
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash and peel the potatoes.
Cut them into long ribbons, not too thinly.
Dry the ribbons well before frying.
Fry and serve
Drop them into hot fat and fry until they are a delicate brown.
Drain before serving and sprinkle with salt and cayenne or white pepper.
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.
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Potato + white peppertop 20% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together157 recipes
Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Potatoes
- Provide the starchy base that fries into crisp, tender ribbons.
- Hot fat
- Conducts heat quickly to cook the ribbons and brown their surface.
The step that matters
Dry the ribbons well before frying. Surface water boils in hot fat, causing spattering and steaming, which keeps the ribbons from crisping and browning evenly. Dry ribbons brown faster and crisper.
“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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