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Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese is a fresh cheese made by curdling milk, adding salt, cream or butter, and shaping or molding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,399 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cheese

  1. Add salt to the curd to taste.

  2. Mix in cream or butter and a little milk.

  3. Press the mixture into a mold or shape it into small balls.

Serve

  1. If using a mold, cut the cheese into slices ⅔ inch thick and serve with a little cream poured over it.

  2. Garnish with parsley when serving.

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. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + parsleytop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,011 recipes

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

  3. Cream + parsleytop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,392 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Curd
Forms the main body of the cheese, giving it its soft, crumbly texture.
Cream or butter
Adds fat, making the cheese richer and smoother in texture.
Milk
Loosens the mixture so it blends and holds together more easily.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, milk):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Macefits better
  4. Parsleythe original

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

“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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