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Oatmeal with Cheese

A simple oatmeal dish flavored with butter and cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Oatmeal with Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the oatmeal according to package instructions.

  2. Shortly before serving, stir in the butter.

  3. Add the cheese and stir until melted and blended with the oatmeal.

  4. Adjust the cheese quantity to increase or decrease the flavor.

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. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Forms the porridge base, giving body and a soft, thick texture as it absorbs liquid.
Butter
Adds fat that coats the oats and gives a richer, smoother mouthfeel.
Cheese
Melts into the hot oatmeal to add savory flavor and a creamy, binding texture.

The step that matters

Add the cheese and stir until melted and blended with the oatmeal.. The cheese should be added to hot oatmeal so it melts evenly. Excess heat can make the proteins in cheese tighten and turn grainy or stringy, so stir gently over low heat or off the heat.

“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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