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Cottage-cheese Roll

A cold roll made from cottage cheese, rice or breadcrumbs, herbs, and optional nuts or cucumbers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,810 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Cottage-cheese Roll

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Combine cottage cheese and cold cooked rice or fresh bread crumbs in a bowl.

  2. Add horseradish, onion juice, parsley, celery, sage, pimientos, green peppers, and grated cheese.

  3. Mix well and add chopped nuts or cucumbers if desired.

Shape and serve

  1. Shape the mixture into a loaf or roll.

  2. If desired, roll the loaf in sifted bread crumbs that have been slightly browned in the oven.

  3. Serve on a bed of lettuce leaves or grape leaves, garnished with fresh or cooked vegetables tossed in French dressing.

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. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,445 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Forms the moist, soft body that holds the loaf together.
Cold cooked rice or fresh bread crumbs
Absorbs moisture and gives the loaf body and a firmer, sliceable texture.
Horseradish
Adds sharp, pungent flavor that cuts through the richness of the cheese.
Grated cheese
Adds savory flavor and fat, enriching the mixture.
Pimientos
Add mild sweetness and color to the mixture.

The step that matters

Shape the mixture into a loaf or roll. The mixture is soft and moist, so it needs to be firm enough to hold its shape. Thorough mixing and a well-drained, cold binder such as rice or bread crumbs help it set into a loaf that slices cleanly.

Swap the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, rice, onion, parsley, celery, sage, pepper):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, rice, onion, parsley, celery, sage, pepper. 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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