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Jan’s Dilly Bread

This is a lovely old recipe from Jan, a church friend of ours when I was growing up. Jan and her husband Bob (who happened to...

By thepioneerwoman · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Jan’s Dilly Bread

Why it works: Cottage cheese and butter work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Jan’s Dilly Bread

Serves 12
Prep2 hr
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

830Calories
32 gProtein
23 gFat
122 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Dill Seed5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By thepioneerwoman. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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 + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together376 recipes

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

  2. Onion + dilltop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,639 recipes

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

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Cottage cheese + dilltop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, sugar, butter, dill, egg, flour):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, sugar, butter, dill, egg, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.