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Frozen Cheese Salad

A chilled salad made with cream cheese, cream, paprika, salt, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Kaufman, Nettie M · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and cream cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,087 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Frozen Cheese Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mix cream cheese with paprika, salt, and lemon juice to taste.

  2. Add ½ cup cream.

  3. Rub the mixture well together.

Freeze

  1. Place the mixture in a fancy mold.

  2. Pack the mold in ice and salt until stiff.

Serve

  1. Cut the mixture into slices.

  2. Serve the slices on lettuce with French dressing.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

162Calories
3 gProtein
15 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Salt1 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 Kaufman, Nettie M. 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. Cream + cream cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together881 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Cream + lemontop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,640 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

Cream cheese
Provides the thick, rich body that holds the frozen mixture together.
Cream
Adds richness and a smoother, softer texture to the mixture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the richness of the dairy.

The step that matters

Pack the mold in ice and salt until stiff. Salt lowers the freezing point of the ice, so the brine becomes colder than plain ice and can freeze the mold. The mixture must be left until firm, but not so long that it freezes unevenly or becomes too hard to slice.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, cream cheese):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, cream cheese. 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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