Why it works: Parmesan cheese and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,041 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓
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Directions
cayenne pepper and mustard. Melt some cheese in a stew-pan with a little butter, mix in the pickles, and serve on toast.
Welsh Rarebit.— Toast a large slice of bread ; in the mean- time melt some cheese in the saucepan with a little butter. When the cheese is melted it will be found that a good deal of oiled butter floats on the top. Pour this over the dry toast first, and then pour the melted cheese afterwards. Some persons add a teaspoonful of Worcester sauce to the cheese, and others a tablespoonful of good old Burton ale over the top.
Ayoli.— This is a dish almost peculiar to the South of France. Soak some crusts of bread in water, squeeze them dry, and add two cloves of garlic chopped fine, six blanched almonds, also chopped very fine, and a yolk of an egg ; mix up the whole into a smooth paste with a little oil.
Pumpkin a la Parmesane.— Cut a large pumpkin into square pieces and boil them for about a quarter of an hour in salt and water, and take them out, drain them, and put them m a stew-pan with a little butter, salt, and grated nutmeo- • fry them, sprinkle them with a little Parmesan cheese, and bake them for a short time in the oven till the cheese begins to melt, and -then serve. This is an Italian recipe.
Zucchetti farcis.— Take some very small gourds or pump- kms, boil them for about a quarter of an hour in salt and water, and then fill them with a forcemeat made as follows • Take some crumb of bread and soak it in milk, squeeze it and add the yolks of two hard-boHed eggs and two raw yolks ; chop up very finely half a dozen blanched almonds with a couple of cloves ; add two ounces of grated Parmesan cheese, and a little salt and grated nutmeg. Stew these gourds in butter and serve them with white sauce.
Stulfed Onions (Italian fashion).— Parboil some laro-e onions, stamp out the core after they have been allowed to get quite cold in a little water ; fill the inside with forcemeat similar to the above; fry them, squeeze the juice of a lemon over them, with a little pepper.
Polenta.— Polenta is made from ground Indian corn, and is seen m Italian shop-windows in the form of a yellow powder ;
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Cheese | 1 oz (28g) cheddar | 113 |
| Parmesan Cheese | 1 oz (28g) | 110 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Clove | 1 tsp ground (2g) | 7 |
| Almond | 1 almond (1.2g) | 7 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Sauce | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Parmesan cheese + cheesetop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1,041 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
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Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,130 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together11,368 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
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Clove + almondtop 10% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1,605 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Garlic + almondtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together967 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, parmesan cheese, bread, sauce, cheese, almond, egg):
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Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, parmesan cheese, bread, sauce, cheese, almond, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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