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Dutch Cheese

A cheese made by thickening milk, draining, seasoning, and forming into balls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: White pepper and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,451 recipes. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

Dutch Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the curd

  1. Set a pitcher of thickened milk in a large cooker kettle.

  2. Surround the pitcher with warmed water.

  3. Cover the pitcher with a cloth and close the cooker compartment.

  4. Let the milk stand for three hours.

  5. Remove and drain through cheese cloth.

Season and serve

  1. Season with salt, white pepper, and chopped parsley or nasturtiums.

  2. Roll into balls.

  3. Serve with chopped celery or cabbage in hollowed tomatoes dressed with salad oil.

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. White pepper + parsleytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Milk + parsleytop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,011 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Milk + white peppertop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,304 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Thickened milk
Its curds separate and form the cheese body once left to stand and drain.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, parsley):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, parsley. 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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