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New Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

New Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub the new potatoes with a coarse cloth or flannel to clean them.

  2. Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender.

  3. Serve with butter, salt, and pepper, or with gravy or ketchup.

  4. Alternatively, stew the potatoes in ale or seasoned water.

  5. For a layered dish, place slices of mutton or beef in a stew pan, add potatoes and spices, and layer them alternately.

  6. Pour in a little water, cover tightly, and stew slowly.

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 + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + muttontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Butter + muttontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, ketchup, vinegar, mutton):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, ketchup, vinegar, mutton. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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