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Prepared Neufchatel Cheese

A creamy Neufchâtel cheese spread flavored with paprika and chives, served with toasted crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,655 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Prepared Neufchatel Cheese

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the spread

  1. Add enough cream to the cheese to achieve a thick paste consistency.

  2. Stir in paprika until the mixture is a decided pink.

  3. Fold in chopped chives.

  4. Mold into the desired shape.

Serve

  1. Serve with toasted crackers.

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

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

  2. Cheese + chivetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together305 recipes

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

  3. Cream + chivetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together700 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Neufchatel cheese
Forms the creamy base that sets into a spreadable, shapeable paste.
Cream
Adds moisture and loosens the cheese to a thick, spreadable paste consistency.
Paprika
Colors the mixture pink and adds mild, earthy flavor.
Chopped chives
Adds a fresh, mild onion flavor and green flecks of color.

The step that matters

Adding the cream. Cream should be added gradually so the cheese reaches a thick paste without becoming runny. Too much liquid makes the spread soft and hard to shape.

Swap the chive

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Chivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, cream. 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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