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Cottage Cheese Noodles

A dough of cottage cheese, eggs, sour milk, butter, and baking soda is rolled, cut, fried, and sprinkled with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese Noodles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, eggs, sour milk, butter, baking soda, and a pinch of coarse sea salt. Mix until a soft dough forms.

  2. Roll the dough out to 1 inch thick.

  3. Cut the dough into squares, each 1 inch wide and 4 inches long.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat deep lard in a pan and fry the noodles until golden brown.

  2. Sprinkle with sugar before 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cottage cheese + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Cottage cheese + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Cottage cheese + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Provides moisture and tender structure to the soft dough.
Eggs
Bind the dough and help it hold its shape while frying.
Sour milk
Its acidity reacts with baking soda so the dough rises slightly and stays tender.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidic sour milk to produce gas that lightens the dough.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the dough.

The step that matters

Fry until golden brown. Frying in hot fat browns the surface through the Maillard reaction, adding flavor and color. If the fat is not hot enough, the noodles soak up oil and turn greasy instead of crisping.

“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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