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Uncooked Cottage-cheese Dishes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and radish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 212 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Uncooked Cottage-cheese Dishes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve cottage cheese plain as a main dish for lunch or supper.

  2. Add sweet or sour cream or melted butter to enhance flavor.

  3. Mix cottage cheese with nut meats, pimientos, green peppers, cucumbers, or other crisp vegetables.

  4. Combine with horse-radish, onion juice, and parsley for a flavorful mix.

  5. Season dry cheese well, pack into a buttered dish, chill, then turn out onto a platter and slice.

  6. For a savory option, mix in ground sage and leftover ham or corned beef, seasoned with made mustard.

  7. Serve in slices or on a bed of lettuce leaves.

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. Cucumber + radishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Pepper + radishtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, cream, butter, meat, pepper, cucumber, horse):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, cream, butter, meat, pepper, cucumber, horse. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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