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Cottage Cheese with Chives

A spread of cottage cheese, chives, cream, salt, and pepper served between rye bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and rye share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese with Chives

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the cottage cheese and chopped chives.

  2. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Add the cream and mix thoroughly.

  4. Spread the mixture between slices of rye bread.

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. Chive + ryetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Rye + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Pepper + ryetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Cottage cheese + chivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Forms the creamy base of the spread, providing most of its body and mild flavour.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, softening the cottage cheese into a smoother spread.
Chives
Add a mild onion-like aroma and fresh flavour that cut through the dairy.

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, pepper, cream, rye, bread):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Lettucefits about as well
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Chivethe original

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

“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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