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Cheese Ball III

"This tasty cheese ball is ideal as either an appetizer or delightful afternoon snack. Serve with a variety of crackers, bread, and fruit. Optionally, you may roll the cheese ball in shredded chipped beef if you want a little variety."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Cheese Ball III

Why it works: Blue cheese and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cheese Ball III

10 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

315Calories
15 gProtein
27 gFat
3 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Processed Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Nutsnot 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 allrecipes. 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. Blue cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Cheese + cream cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Cheese + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Vinegar + garlictop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, blue cheese, cream cheese, red wine, vinegar, garlic):

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, blue cheese, cream cheese, red wine, vinegar, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.