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Broiled Sweet Potatoes

Broiled sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes cut lengthwise, rubbed with melted butter, and broiled 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 ↓

Broiled Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Steam the sweet potatoes until tender.

  2. Cut them lengthwise.

  3. Rub the cut sides with melted butter.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil on a grill or in a hot skillet until browned.

  2. Serve with a small bit of butter on each piece.

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
Main ingredient; steaming makes them tender, and cut sides brown well under heat.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the cut surfaces brown and carrying flavour.

The step that matters

Broil until browned. Sweet potato sugars caramelise and brown under high heat, but the surface can burn quickly once it darkens. Watch closely and pull them off once the cut sides are golden.

“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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