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Cottage Cheese Sausage

A patty made from cottage cheese, bread crumbs, rice, and seasonings, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the onion and cheese mixture

  1. Cook the onion in the savory fat until tender but not brown.

  2. Dissolve the baking soda in the milk and mix it into the cottage cheese.

  3. Thoroughly combine all dry ingredients with the bread crumbs.

  4. Blend the peanut butter and cooked onion with the cheese mixture.

  5. Mix in the bread crumbs until well combined.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into flat cakes and dust with additional bread crumbs or cornmeal.

  2. Fry the cakes in a hot frying pan with a little fat until golden brown.

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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Rice + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

  4. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Forms the moist, soft body of the cakes.
Peanut butter
Adds fat and richness to the cakes.
Dry bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the cakes structure so they hold their shape.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidic cheese to lighten the texture and aid browning.
Cold cooked rice
Adds body and bulk, helping the cakes hold together.

The step that matters

Fry the cakes in a hot pan until golden brown. A hot pan with a little fat sears the outside quickly, forming a browned crust that holds the soft, moist cheese inside. A cool pan lets the cakes absorb fat and fall apart.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, bread, rice, milk, peanut, butter, pepper. 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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