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Kluskis of Cream Cheese

Cream cheese dumplings made with butter, eggs, bread crumbs, and cream, poached and served with poivrade sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Kluskis of Cream Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, mix the butter, eggs, cream cheese, powdered sugar, and salt.

  2. Add enough grated bread crumbs and cream to form a paste.

Shape and cook

  1. Roll the mixture into balls.

  2. Poach the balls in boiling salted water until cooked.

  3. Drain and serve with poivrade sauce.

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.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set when cooked.
Cream cheese
Adds richness and a soft, creamy texture to the dumplings.
Fresh butter
Adds fat, richness and tenderness to the mixture.
Grated bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the paste body so it holds its shape.

The step that matters

Forming the paste. The mixture must be firm enough to roll into balls without falling apart. Adding the bread crumbs and cream gradually lets you control moisture, so the dumplings hold together when they are poached.

“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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