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Stewed Cheese

A simple cheese stew made with grated cheese, egg, cream, butter, and seasoning, served hot with toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stewed Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine the grated cheese in a dish.

  2. Beat the egg and strain it into the cream.

  3. Melt the butter in a small saucepan.

Make the stew

  1. Stir the cheese mixture into the butter and boil until well mixed.

Serve

  1. Serve hot with toast.

  2. Brown in a patty pan.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Grated cheese
Provides rich, savory flavor and melts into the warm butter to form the stew.
Egg
Thickens the mixture as its proteins set gently with heat.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, giving the stew a smooth, fluid base.
Butter
Adds fat that helps the cheese blend smoothly and gives a rich mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Stirring the cheese into the butter and boiling. Cheese proteins tighten and can turn grainy or separate when overheated. Stir steadily and keep the heat controlled so the mixture stays smooth while it thickens.

“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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