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Scrambled Eggs Avith Cottage Cheese

A quick scrambled egg dish mixed with cottage cheese, lightly heated.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and cottage cheese work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 239 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Scrambled Eggs Avith Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the egg, milk, salt, and pepper.

  2. Grease a pan and scramble the egg mixture until fully cooked.

Add the cheese

  1. If the cottage cheese is not too acidic, stir it lightly into the cooked eggs without mixing too thoroughly.

  2. Cook just long enough to warm the cheese slightly.

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. Milk + cottage cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Egg + cottage cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Pepper + cottage cheesetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into soft curds that form the body of the dish.
Cottage cheese
Adds creamy, soft pockets of moisture and mild tang to the eggs.
Milk
Adds moisture and makes the eggs softer and more tender when scrambled.

The step that matters

Adding the cottage cheese. Stirring the cheese in lightly and warming it only briefly keeps its curds distinct and creamy. Overmixing or overheating can break it down and make the eggs watery.

“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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