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Cheese Entrees

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and meat work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 269 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Cheese Entrees

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. In a serving dish, add some of the sauce you will use with the meat.

  3. Stew the grated Parmesan cheese with the sauce.

  4. Place the cooked meat or fish on top of the cheese mixture.

  5. Pour the remaining sauce over the meat.

  6. Cover the entire dish with more grated Parmesan.

  7. Bake in the oven until browned and serve with a thick sauce.

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. Parmesan cheese + meattop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together269 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Parmesan cheese + cauliflowertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together138 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parmesan cheese + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  4. Sauce + cauliflowertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes

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

Swap the cauliflower

The recipe marks cauliflower as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parmesan cheese, meat, sauce):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parmesan cheese, meat, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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