Cheese Olives

Name: Cheese Olives
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon butter; 2 tablespoons grated cheese; 1 dozen queen olives; 2 saltspoons salt; 1 saltspoon cayenne; 2 eggs; one dish; half fill; salt; cayenne; pepper

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients

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Cheese Olives

Ingredients

Directions

Stone 1 dozen queen olives. Take ^ ounce Philadelphia cream cheese, mix with it 2 saltspoons salt, 1 saltspoon cayenne, and ^ teaspoon chopped parsley. Fill the olives with the prepared cheese.
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Rub 1 tablespoon butter with IJ- tablespoons flour till smooth; stir into ^ cup boiling milk, and cook till thick. Add 2 tablespoons grated cheese, take off, add salt and cayenne pepper, and the well beaten yolks of 2 eggs. Lastly stir in the stiff whites, turn into buttered cups or one dish. Put in a pan, half fill it with hot water, and bake in a moderate " oven about 25 minutes. Serve at once.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

309Calories

14 gProtein

27 gFat

4 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cayenne	1 tsp (1.8g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By Martin, Maria Ewing, 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.

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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.

Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,962 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,263 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Cheese + olivetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,802 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
Butter + olivetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,887 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).