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Cottage-cheese Dishes

A baked cottage cheese pie with whipped cream, egg white, and optional fruit garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Cottage-cheese Dishes

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).

  2. Prepare the pie crust by baking it in muffin tins or on the bottom of inverted pie tins until lightly browned.

Make and fill

  1. In a bowl, combine the cottage cheese, part of the whipped cream, and your choice of flavoring.

  2. Gently fold in the beaten egg white.

  3. Spoon the mixture into the prepared pastry cases.

Finish and serve

  1. Top with the remaining whipped cream and garnish with fresh or canned fruit if desired.

  2. Serve immediately or chill before serving.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cottage cheese + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Cottage cheese + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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, sliceable body of the filling.
Whipped cream
Adds lightness and moisture to the filling and creates a soft topping.
Egg white
Helps the filling set and gives it structure when gently folded in.
Pie crust
Provides a crisp, browned base that holds the filling.

The step that matters

Gently fold in the beaten egg white. Folding keeps air bubbles in the mixture; vigorous stirring deflates them and can make the filling dense rather than light.

Swap the cinnamon

The recipe marks cinnamon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, cream, egg, sugar):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonthe original
  3. Dillfits less well
  4. Celeryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, cream, egg, sugar. 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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