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Pimiento and Cottage Cheese Roast

A baked roll of Lima beans, cottage cheese, and pimientos mixed with breadcrumbs and browned with butter or fat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pimiento and Cottage Cheese Roast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pass the cooked Lima beans, cottage cheese, and chopped pimientos through a meat chopper.

  2. Mix thoroughly and add bread crumbs until the mixture is stiff enough to form a roll.

  3. Place the roll in the oven and brown, basting occasionally with butter or other fat and water.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cottage cheese + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Lima beans + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Lima beans + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Cottage cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Adds moisture and soft, creamy body that helps bind the roast.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and firm the mixture so it holds its shape as a roll.
Cooked lima beans
Provide the bulk and substance of the roast.

Swap the lima beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, bread, butter):

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Peasfits about as well
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Lima beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, bread, butter. 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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