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Plain Cottage Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Plain Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix cottage cheese with broken nut meats, chopped pimientos, finely cut green peppers, diced cucumbers, or other crisp vegetables.

  2. Add horse-radish, onion juice, and parsley for flavor.

  3. Season the dry cheese well and pack it into a buttered dish.

  4. Chill the mixture, then turn it out onto a platter.

  5. Slice and serve like cold veal loaf.

  6. For a variation, mix in finely ground leftover ham or corned beef and season with made mustard.

  7. Serve in slices or turn the mold out on a border 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Radish + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together120 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Cucumber + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,564 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Broccolifits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

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