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Pot-chbbse with Watercresses

A soft cheese mixture flavored with salt and butter, shaped into a mound and garnished with watercresses.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pot-chbbse with Watercresses

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine the pot-cheese and salt.

  2. Add butter and cream to create a soft, pliable mixture.

  3. Use a fork to mix thoroughly, then a broad-bladed knife until well incorporated.

Shape and serve

  1. Shape the mixture into a round mound and garnish with watercresses.

  2. Serve with crackers and pass any preferred candied fruit.

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

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

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

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

  3. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + watercresstop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together638 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

What each ingredient does

Pot-cheese
Forms the body of the dish, giving it its soft, spreadable texture.
Butter
Adds fat, richness and a smoother, softer mouthfeel to the cheese.
Cream
Adds moisture so the mixture becomes soft and pliable rather than crumbly.

The step that matters

Mixing until well incorporated. Mixing thoroughly with a fork and then a broad-bladed knife spreads the butter and cream evenly through the cheese. Uneven mixing leaves greasy or dry pockets and an inconsistent texture.

“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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