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Cottage Cheese Pudding

A baked pudding made with cottage cheese, sugar, currants, bread crumbs, butter, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Cottage Cheese Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

Mix and bake

  1. In a bowl, stir together the cheese curd, sugar, currants, bread crumbs, melted butter, and beaten eggs.

  2. Pour the mixture into a baking dish.

  3. Bake in the preheated oven until set, about 30-40 minutes.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Currant + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese curd
Forms the body of the pudding and sets into a soft, sliceable custard.
Eggs
Coagulate on heating to bind the mixture and set it firmly.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and add light body to the mixture.
Melted butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender, smooth texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the savoury tang of the cheese.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Eggs thicken as they heat, so underbaking leaves a wet, loose centre, while overbaking makes the pudding dry and rubbery. Check for a set centre rather than relying only on the time.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, sugar, bread, butter, egg):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, sugar, bread, butter, egg. 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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