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Pimiento and Cottage Cheese Roast

A baked roll of cooked cereal, cottage cheese, bread crumbs, and chopped pimientos seasoned with salt, baking soda, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,379 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Pimiento and Cottage Cheese Roast

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make and bake the roast

  1. In a large bowl, blend the cooked cereal, cottage cheese, bread crumbs, chopped pimientos, salt, baking soda, and pepper until very stiff.

  2. Form the mixture into a roll.

  3. Place the roll in a baking dish and bake for about 25 minutes.

  4. Baste occasionally with savory fat or meat drippings if necessary.

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. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

  2. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

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

  3. Rice + cottage cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together145 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Cooked cereal
Provides bulk and body so the roast holds its shape when formed into a roll.
Cottage cheese
Adds moisture and softness, and helps bind the mixture together as it bakes.
Dry bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture set into a firm, sliceable roll.
Pimientos
Add mild sweetness, color, and a gentle aroma to the roast.
Baking soda
Reacts with the mixture's acidity to lighten its texture and aid browning.

The step that matters

Mix until very stiff. The mixture needs to be stiff enough to hold a roll shape. If it is too wet, it can slump and spread in the dish and bake up soft instead of sliceable. Add liquid only if needed, as the record allows.

“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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