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Stuffed Potatoes

A dish of fried potato cases filled with chicken, ham, truffles, mushrooms, and white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Stuffed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the chicken, ham, truffles, and mushrooms.

  2. Heat them in the white sauce, then add cream and seasoning.

Make the cases

  1. Cut the potatoes into round blocks and remove the center to create small bucket-shaped cases.

  2. Fry the potato cases in deep fat until golden brown.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the potato cases with the mixture and top each with a small round of ham.

  2. Serve hot as an entree.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  4. Potato + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together968 recipes

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

  5. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the edible case that holds the filling and crisps when fried.
White sauce
Binds the chopped meat and mushrooms into a moist, creamy filling.
Cooked chicken or veal
Provides the main savory body of the filling.
Cream
Adds richness and smoothness to the filling.

The step that matters

Frying the potato cases until golden brown. Frying in deep fat dries and browns the potato surface, forming a crisp shell that holds its bucket shape. Undercooked cases stay soft and may collapse under the filling.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, sauce, ham, truffle, cream):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Onionfits about as well
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, sauce, ham, truffle, cream. 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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