Potatoes
Jacket Potatoes with Cheese
Gschwellti
Switzerland
Potatoes boiled whole in their skins and eaten hot with cheese, butter and pickles, the standard partner to raclette and cold cuts.
Original eatfuls sticker artwork
What it is
A closer look at Jacket Potatoes with Cheese.
Potatoes boiled whole in their skins and eaten hot with cheese, butter and pickles, the standard partner to raclette and cold cuts.
What to look for
Know it when you find it.
Peeled at the table with the fingers. Waxy varieties are used so they hold together under a scrape of molten cheese.
Where it belongs
Origins and
traditions.
Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Jacket Potatoes with Cheese.
Switzerland
Country-wide tradition
Names around the table
One food, more than one name.
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