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Stuffed Olives with Cream Cheese

A simple appetizer of chopped olives mixed with cream cheese, shaped into balls or a loaf, served with a cheese knife.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and cream cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,003 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

Stuffed Olives with Cream Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the chopped olives with the cream cheese.

  2. Shape the mixture into small balls or form it into a loaf.

  3. Serve with a cheese knife as an accompaniment to the salad course.

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. Olive + cream cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,003 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Stuffed olives
Provide salty, briny flavor and bits of texture throughout the spread.
Cream cheese
Provides creamy body and fat that holds the mixture together and lets it be shaped.

“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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