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Hashed Brown Potatoes with Cottage Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Hashed Brown Potatoes with Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop cold boiled potatoes finely and season with salt, pepper, and onion juice.

  2. Mix in enough milk to help them brown in a lightly greased hot frying pan.

  3. Cook the potatoes slowly without stirring until browned on the bottom.

  4. Meanwhile, soften cottage cheese with cream or milk until spreadable.

  5. Mix in any desired seasonings like parsley, ham, or bacon.

  6. Spread the cheese mixture over the browned potatoes.

  7. Let it sit to warm the cheese, then fold the potatoes like an omelet.

  8. Turn onto a hot platter and serve immediately.

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

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

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

Swap the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, pepper, onion, milk, cottage cheese, cream, ham):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celeryfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Thymefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, pepper, onion, milk, cottage cheese, cream, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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