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Pimiento and Cottage-cheese Roast

A baked roll made with cooked cereal, cottage cheese, pimientos, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,379 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Pimiento and Cottage-cheese Roast

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make and shape the roast

  1. In a large bowl, blend the cooked cereal, salt, cottage cheese, baking soda, bread crumbs, pepper, and chopped pimientos until very stiff.

  2. Form the mixture into a roll.

Bake

  1. Place the roll in a baking dish and bake for about 25 minutes.

  2. Baste with savory fat or meat drippings as needed.

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. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

  2. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Rice + cottage cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Cottage cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Adds moisture and soft creamy body that helps bind the roast.
Cooked cereal
Provides bulk and starch that gives the roast its firm, sliceable structure.
Dry bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold its shape while baking.
Baking soda
Reacts with acidic ingredients to lighten texture and aid browning.

The step that matters

Blending until very stiff. The mixture must be stiff enough to hold its shape when rolled. If it is too wet, the roll will slump and spread in the oven, and if it is overmixed the texture can become dense and gummy. Add liquid only if needed, as the record suggests.

“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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