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Peanut Flour - Cottage Cheese Loaf

A loaf made with peanut flour, cottage cheese, nuts, and rice, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 670 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Peanut Flour - Cottage Cheese Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cook the chopped onion in 8 tablespoons of water until soft.

Make the loaf

  1. Combine cottage cheese, peanut flour, egg, salt, fat, chopped nuts, pepper, and cooked rice in a bowl.

  2. Add the cooked onion to the mixture and stir well.

  3. Transfer the mixture to a loaf pan and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 35 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve hot with tomato sauce.

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. Peanut + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Peanut + nutstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Onion + peanuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,043 recipes

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

  4. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Adds moisture and soft, tender body to the loaf.
Peanut flour
Provides the bulk and nutty flavour that forms the loaf's base.
Egg
Binds the mixture so it holds together when baked and sliced.
Cooked rice
Adds bulk and a tender, starchy texture to the loaf.
Chopped nuts
Adds crunch and toasted, nutty flavour throughout the loaf.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, onion, peanut, flour, egg, pepper, rice):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, onion, peanut, flour, egg, pepper, rice. 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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