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Creamed Potatoes Axd Cottage Cheese

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Creamed Potatoes Axd Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Reheat the diced or sliced potatoes in a medium white sauce with cottage cheese.

  2. To make the sauce, heat milk with a slice of onion for flavor.

  3. Add chopped parsley and pimientos to the sauce.

  4. Serve boiled new potatoes whole with the sauce.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Cottage cheese + oniontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together391 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Potato + cottage cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, sauce, cottage cheese, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Dillfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, sauce, cottage cheese, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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