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Potatoes Cooked in Bay-infused Milk

The ultimate Sunday lunch side dish, these creamy potatoes add a powerful herbal note to the table

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Potatoes Cooked in Bay-infused Milk

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 81,283 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Potatoes Cooked in Bay-infused Milk

Serves 6
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

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By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,456 recipes

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

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