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Griddled Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are boiled, sliced, buttered, and grilled until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,491 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Griddled Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the sweet potatoes until tender, then peel them.

  2. Once cooled, cut the potatoes into thick slices.

  3. Dip the slices in melted butter.

Grill and serve

  1. Grill the slices over coals or under a gas flame until browned.

  2. Pour a little melted butter over the grilled slices 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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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. Sweet potato + buttertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Provide the starchy flesh that softens when boiled and browns on the grill.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the slices brown and carrying flavour.

The step that matters

Grill the slices until browned. Potato slices can dry out or burn before their surfaces caramelise. Medium heat and the butter coating help them brown evenly while the centre stays tender.

“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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