Why it works: Meat and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 783 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Ensure you have enough cold meat for dinner.
Before leaving, Annie will put the potatoes in to bake.
To check if the potatoes are done, squeeze them gently with your fingers.
When they feel soft and press together like mashed potatoes, they are ready.
Use a towel to handle the hot potatoes.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Meat + potatotop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together783 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
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