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Savory Winter Hash

A hash of cold meat, potatoes, onion, and herbs simmered in gravy or water, served over toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and summer savory match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 237 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Savory Winter Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the cold meat, cold potatoes, and onion together.

  2. Add pepper, salt, parsley, sage, and summer savory.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the mixture in a saucepan with gravy or hot water and butter.

  2. Simmer gently for 15 minutes.

  3. Serve over thin slices of toast.

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. Sage + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Parsley + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,445 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  5. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold potatoes
Provide the bulk of the hash and soften as they simmer, absorbing the liquid and flavors.
Cold meat
Supplies the main protein and savory flavor of the hash.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and savory depth as it cooks down.
Gravy or hot water
Supplies the moisture that gently cooks and binds the hash together.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavor and helps the hash brown lightly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, potato, pepper, parsley, sage, summer savory, butter):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, potato, pepper, parsley, sage, summer savory, butter. 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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