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Cottage Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cottage cheese and cream work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 146 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain the cottage cheese.

  2. Place it in a glass dish without seasoning.

  3. Pour thick sweet cream over the cottage cheese and serve.

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. Cottage cheese + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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