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Broiled Potatoes

A simple dish of sliced potatoes seasoned with sea salt and clarified butter, grilled until tender and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Broiled Potatoes

Why it works: Potato and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,855 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Broiled Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and peel the potatoes.

  2. Cut them into oblong slices about ½ inch thick.

  3. Season with coarse sea salt.

  4. Dip each slice into clarified butter.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the slices on a griller and cook over low heat until done, basting occasionally with butter.

  2. Arrange the potatoes on a hot dish, garnish with chopped parsley, and serve.

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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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 + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender and creamy inside as they cook.
Clarified butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the potato surfaces brown as they cook.

The step that matters

Cook over low heat, basting occasionally. Low heat gives the slices time to cook through before the outside darkens too much. Regular basting with butter keeps the surface from drying out and encourages even browning.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, butter):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Garlicfits less well
  4. Nutmegfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, 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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