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Sage Cheese

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Why it works: Sage and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Sage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bruise the sage and spinach leaves and express the juice.

  2. Mix the juice with the curd.

  3. Proceed as you would with other cheese.

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. Sage + spinachtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

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

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