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To Dress New Potatoes

This dish is boiled new potatoes seasoned with coarse sea salt and optional fresh mint.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and mint work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 363 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

To Dress New Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the skins off the potatoes with a coarse cloth and a piece of salt.

  2. Place the potatoes in cold water to prevent discoloration.

Boil and serve

  1. Put the potatoes in a saucepan with a little salt and hot water.

  2. For added flavor, boil a little mint tied in a ball with the potatoes.

  3. Boil for about 20 minutes.

  4. Serve on a napkin, and do not boil too long before serving.

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. Potato + minttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together363 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

New potatoes
Provide the starchy body of the dish, which cooks soft and holds its shape when boiled.
Fresh mint
Adds aroma to the cooking water and the potatoes.

The step that matters

Do not boil too long before serving. Potatoes keep cooking in their own residual heat and continue to soften after they leave the water. Overcooking makes them waterlogged and crumbly, so they should be drained and served promptly.

“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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