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Cecelia Bart a

A baked cottage cheese cake with a pie crust base.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Cecelia Bart a

Ingredients

Directions

Make the crust

  1. Sift one large cup of flour with a heaping teaspoon of baking powder.

  2. Rub into this a tablespoon of cold butter.

  3. Add a well-beaten egg and a teaspoon of sugar.

  4. Mix together quickly with enough milk to make a soft dough.

  5. Roll out as when making pie crust and line two pie tins.

Make the filling

  1. Mix one pound of cottage cheese rubbed smooth with the back of a spoon, three well-beaten eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, one cup of cream, one-eighth teaspoon of mace.

  2. Mix well and put into open crusts.

Bake

  1. Bake forty-five minutes in moderate oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

982Calories
39 gProtein
36 gFat
124 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Macenot in our table0
Pienot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

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

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Forms the body of the filling, giving it a soft, creamy, sliceable texture.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the filling and give it structure.
Cream
Adds richness and fat, making the filling smoother and more tender.
Flour
Forms the structure of the crust dough that holds the filling.
Butter
Adds fat that is rubbed into the flour, making the crust tender and flaky.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps browning in the filling and crust.

The step that matters

Bake forty-five minutes in moderate oven. Eggs must set through the custard-like filling without overbaking, which can make it grainy or watery. Moderate heat sets the eggs gently while the crust cooks through.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, sugar, milk, cream, butter, flour, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, sugar, milk, cream, butter, flour, egg. 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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