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Sicilian Homemade Ricotta Cheese

"This is a recipe for my Sicilian grandmother's creamy homemade ricotta cheese. Great as a spread on fresh bread or add as a topping to fresh Pasta."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Sicilian Homemade Ricotta Cheese

Why it works: Buttermilk and cream work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 674 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Sicilian Homemade Ricotta Cheese

5 cups
Prep10 min
Cook35 min

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By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Buttermilk + creamtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together674 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,399 recipes

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

  3. Milk + buttermilktop 41% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together9 recipes

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

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