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Potato Scones

Potato scones are baked potato cakes seasoned with sea salt and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,355 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Potato Scones

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Mash the boiled potatoes carefully and season with coarse sea salt.

  2. Knead the mashed potatoes with a little flour.

  3. Form the mixture into scones about 1 inch thick.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) and prick the scones to prevent blistering.

  2. Split the scones, butter them generously, and serve immediately while hot.

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 + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the dough's body, giving the scones a soft, tender crumb.
Flour
Binds the mashed potatoes so they hold their shape when kneaded and baked.

The step that matters

Pricking the scones before baking. Pricking lets steam escape from the dough as it heats, which prevents blisters and bubbles from forming on the surface.

“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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