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Cottage-cheese Mayonnaise

A creamy dressing made from cottage cheese, mustard, paprika, and oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,424 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Cottage-cheese Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dressing

  1. In a bowl, mix the cottage cheese, salt, sugar (or corn syrup), mustard, and paprika thoroughly.

  2. Gradually stir in the vegetable oil until well combined.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately, as this dressing does not keep well.

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. Sugar + mustardtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Cottage cheese + mustardtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Cottage cheese + sugartop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Forms the creamy base and body of the dressing in place of egg-based mayonnaise.
Vegetable oil
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, silky texture as it disperses through the cheese.
Sugar or corn syrup
Adds mild sweetness that balances the tang of the cottage cheese.

The step that matters

Gradually stir in the vegetable oil. Adding the oil slowly lets it disperse into the cheese as fine droplets, giving a smooth, combined dressing instead of a greasy, separated one.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Cucumberfits about as well
  2. Mustardthe original
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, sugar. 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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