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Cottage-cheese Roll

A cold roll made from cottage cheese, rice or breadcrumbs, herbs, and optional vegetables, served on lettuce or grape leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,810 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Cottage-cheese Roll

Ingredients

Directions

Mix

  1. In a bowl, combine cottage cheese and cold cooked rice or bread crumbs.

  2. Add horseradish, olive oil, parsley, celery, sage, pimientos, green peppers, and grated cheese.

  3. Mix well and add optional ingredients if desired.

Shape and serve

  1. Shape the mixture into a loaf or roll.

  2. If desired, roll the loaf in sifted bread crumbs before serving.

  3. Serve on a bed of lettuce or grape leaves, garnished with fresh or cooked vegetables tossed in French dressing.

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. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Parsley + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,445 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  5. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Provides the soft, moist body that the roll is built around.
Cold cooked rice or bread crumbs
Absorbs moisture and firms the mixture so it holds its shape.
Grated cheese
Adds richness and savoury flavour and helps bind the mixture.
Horseradish
Adds a sharp, pungent bite that cuts the richness of the cheese.

Swap the celery

The recipe marks celery as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, rice, horseradish, olive, parsley, sage, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, rice, horseradish, olive, parsley, sage, 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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