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Potato Stuffing

A savory dish of mashed potatoes mixed with onion juice, pepper, salt, butter, egg yolks, cream, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Potato Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix onion juice, pepper, salt, and butter with the mashed potato.

  2. Add the cream to the beaten egg yolks and mix them with the potato.

  3. Stir in the parsley.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 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

Mashed potato
Forms the bulk of the stuffing and gives it a soft, moist body.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and help bind it as it sets with heat.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother, moister texture.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, softening the mixture.

The step that matters

Add the cream to the beaten egg yolks and mix them with the potato. Egg yolks can scramble or cook unevenly if they meet hot potato directly. Combining them with cream first dilutes and cools them, so they blend smoothly into the mash.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, pepper, butter, egg, cream, parsley. 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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