Name: Cottage Cheese with Preserves and Jellies
Ingredients: cottage cheese; fruit preserves (such as strawberries, figs, or cherries); jelly; bread or crackers

Why it works: Cottage cheese and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese with Preserves and Jellies

Ingredients

cottage cheese
fruit preserves (such as strawberries, figs, or cherries)
jelly
bread or crackers

Directions

Pour fruit preserves over cottage cheese.
Serve with bread or crackers.
Optionally, serve cottage cheese balls separately with preserves.
Drop a bit of jelly into a nest of cottage cheese for an attractive presentation.

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.

Cottage cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together72 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Fruit preserve + breadtop 45% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cottage cheese + fruit preservetop 48% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1 recipe

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).