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Curd Cheese Cake Filling

A filling for a cheese cake made with curd, lemon rind, brandy, eggs, sugar, butter, currants, almonds, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Brandy and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,057 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Curd Cheese Cake Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the butter until creamy.

  2. Mix in the small curd thoroughly.

  3. Add the sugar, lemon rind, currants, and pounded almonds.

  4. Stir in the cream.

  5. Add the well-beaten eggs and lastly the brandy.

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. Brandy + curranttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Small curd
Forms the body of the filling, giving it a soft, moist, crumbly texture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set into a smooth, cohesive filling.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender texture when beaten until creamy.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps give it a light, creamed texture.
Sweet almonds
Contribute nutty flavour and a slightly firm, rich texture to the filling.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, brandy, egg, sugar, butter, cream, almond):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, brandy, egg, sugar, butter, cream, almond. 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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