Why it works: Cottage cheese and egg work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 601 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓
Mayonnaise Dressing Avith Cottage Cheese
Ingredients
Directions
Make the dressing
Prepare a thick mayonnaise dressing using oil and eggs.
Add ½ cup of fine-grained cottage cheese and mix thoroughly until well combined.
Store
Store in the refrigerator; it will keep for some time without separating.
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.
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Cottage cheese + eggtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together601 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Cottage cheese
- Adds body and creaminess while lightening the richness of the oil-based dressing.
- Eggs
- Emulsifier that holds the oil and liquid together to form a thick, stable dressing.
- Oil
- Provides fat and richness, forming the bulk of the emulsified mayonnaise base.
The step that matters
Mixing the cottage cheese in thoroughly. Cottage cheese must be fully blended so no lumps or curds remain. Thorough mixing gives the dressing an even, smooth texture and keeps the emulsion from looking broken.
“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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