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Scrambled Eggs with Cottage Cheese

Scrambled eggs mixed with cottage cheese, cooked in butter and seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cottage cheese and butter work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Scrambled Eggs with Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Heat a skillet over medium heat and add butter.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour in the eggs and cook gently, stirring occasionally.

  2. When the eggs are nearly set, add the cottage cheese and stir until combined.

  3. Serve warm.

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

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

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

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

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Cottage cheese + peppertop 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 give the scramble its main structure and body.
Cottage cheese
Adds moisture and a creamy, tender texture to the set eggs.
Butter
Coats the skillet and adds richness while keeping the eggs from sticking.

The step that matters

Cooking the eggs gently and adding the cottage cheese near the end. High heat makes egg proteins tighten and squeeze out water, leaving dry, rubbery curds. Cooking slowly and stopping while the eggs are still glossy and nearly set keeps them tender and moist, and folding in the cottage cheese off the heat helps it stay creamy.

“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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