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Cottage Cheese Sausages

A fried sausage made with cottage cheese, bread crumbs, and peanut butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,585 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Cook the onion in the fat until tender, but not brown.

  2. Dissolve the baking soda in the milk.

  3. Mix the dissolved baking soda into the cottage cheese.

  4. Thoroughly combine all other ingredients with the bread crumbs.

  5. Blend the peanut butter and onion with the cheese mixture.

  6. Add the bread crumbs.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into flat cakes.

  2. Dust the cakes with bread crumbs or cornmeal.

  3. Fry the cakes in a little fat in a hot frying pan until golden brown.

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. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Thyme + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + peanuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,043 recipes

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

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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
Forms the moist, soft base that binds the sausage mixture together.
Baking soda
Reacts with the dairy to lighten the texture and aid browning.
Peanut butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the cakes stay moist and tender.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the cakes structure, plus a crisp coating.

The step that matters

Fry the cakes in a hot pan. A hot pan with a little fat sets the outside quickly and browns it, which gives a crisp crust. A cool pan lets the cakes absorb fat and fall apart.

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (thyme, milk, onion, pepper, cottage cheese, bread, meat):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against thyme, milk, onion, pepper, cottage cheese, bread, meat. 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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