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Frozen Roquefort Cheese

A chilled cheese spread made with Roquefort, cream cheese, whipped cream, vegetables, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Roquefort cheese and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Frozen Roquefort Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Mash the Roquefort cheese and blend it with the whipped cream.

  2. Grate the green pepper, onion, and celery.

  3. Add the grated vegetables and seasonings to the cheese mixture.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the mixture.

  2. Serve on lettuce with French dressing or as an appetizer on rounds of rye toast.

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.

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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.

  1. Roquefort cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Roquefort cheese
Provides the main strong, salty flavor and the firm body of the mixture.
Whipped cream
Adds moisture and a light, smooth texture that softens the dense cheese.
Cream cheese
Adds creaminess and mild richness that helps bind the mixture.
Green pepper
Adds fresh, slightly bitter vegetable flavor and moisture.
Onion
Adds sharp aromatic flavor that balances the richness of the cheese.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Lettucefits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against roquefort cheese, celery, cream cheese, cream, pepper, sauce. 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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