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Cheese Savoury

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Cheese Savoury

Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Cheese Savoury

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick the parsley and boil it in water for five minutes.

  2. Drain and chop the parsley finely.

  3. Pound the cheese until smooth.

  4. Mix the cheese with the butter and add a few grains of cayenne.

  5. Pass the mixture through a fine sieve.

  6. Keep in a cool place until needed.

  7. Heap a teaspoonful on unsweetened or cheese biscuits, preferably small round water biscuits.

  8. Pile on a dish and serve.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + lentilstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Lentils + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the lentils

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Lentilsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, cheese, pepper, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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