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Cottage-cheese Mayonnaise

A creamy dressing made from cottage cheese, corn syrup, mustard, paprika, salt, and olive oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,950 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Cottage-cheese Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dressing

  1. In a bowl, mix the cottage cheese, salt, corn syrup, paprika, and mustard thoroughly.

  2. Gradually stir in the olive oil until well combined.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately as this dressing does not keep well.

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. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Corn + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,502 recipes

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

  3. Corn + mustardtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Cottage cheese + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together205 recipes

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

  5. Corn + syruptop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,678 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Forms the creamy base and body of the dressing.
Olive oil
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, silky texture.
Mustard
Helps the oil and cheese emulsify and stay blended.
Corn syrup
Adds a mild sweetness that balances the savoury flavours.

The step that matters

Gradually stir in the olive oil. Adding the oil slowly lets it disperse into the cheese as tiny droplets, forming a smooth emulsion. Pouring it in too quickly can leave the dressing greasy and separated.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, corn, syrup, olive):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

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

“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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