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Cottage Cheese Loaf

A baked loaf made with kidney beans, cottage cheese, ground peanuts, bread crumbs, boiled rice, onion, fat, tomato juice, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 670 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese Loaf

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a large bowl, mix together the kidney beans, cottage cheese, ground peanuts, bread crumbs, boiled rice, chopped onion, fat, tomato juice, salt, and pepper until well combined.

  3. Form the mixture into a roll and place it on a baking sheet.

  4. Brush the roll with melted fat.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for 25 minutes.

  2. Serve the loaf with a medium thick white sauce, adding 2 tablespoons of minced sweet red pepper if desired.

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. Peanut + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Peanut + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,043 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Provides moisture and soft, creamy body to the loaf's interior.
Kidney beans
Add bulk and a firm, starchy texture that holds the loaf together.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and help bind the mixture so it holds its shape.
Ground peanuts
Add richness, fat and a nutty flavor to the loaf.
Boiled rice
Adds bulk and soft texture while absorbing moisture from the mixture.

The step that matters

Forming the roll. The mixture is soft and held together only by crumbs and cooked starches, so it must be packed firmly into an even roll. Loose packing can crumble or bake unevenly, while the binders set as the loaf heats.

Swap the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, peanut, bread, rice, onion, tomato, pepper):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, peanut, bread, rice, onion, tomato, pepper. 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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