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Crowdie of Inverness and Ross-shire

A Scottish cheese made from fresh sweet milk curd and butter, pressed into shape and sliced for breakfast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Crowdie of Inverness and Ross-shire

Ingredients

Directions

Make the crowdie

  1. Combine the fresh sweet milk curd and fresh butter in a bowl.

  2. Mix them together well until fully incorporated.

  3. Press the mixture into a shape.

  4. Turn it out carefully so it retains its shape.

Serve

  1. Slice and serve for breakfast.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh sweet milk curd
Provides the main body and soft, crumbly texture of the cheese.
Fresh butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a smoother, creamier mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Mixing until fully incorporated. If the curd and butter are not thoroughly blended, the mixture can stay streaky and crumbly, so it will not hold a firm shape when pressed and turned out.

“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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