Why it works: Potato and scallop work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓
Baked Potatoes, Carlsruhe Btyle
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the potatoes as you would for baking.
Omit the herrings and instead use scallops of smoked lamb or pig's tongue.
Add sliced breakfast sausages to the dish before baking.
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 + scalloptop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together14 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
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