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Peanut Toast

A toasted sandwich with peanut butter, egg, and paprika, served with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peanut Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, mix peanut butter with salt and paprika.

  2. Moisten the mixture with a little milk.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Trim crusts off the bread slices.

  2. Butter the bread slices.

  3. Spread a generous amount of peanut butter on one slice.

  4. Top with another slice.

Fry and serve

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the egg with a little milk.

  2. Dip the sandwiches in the egg mixture.

  3. Fry the sandwiches in butter until golden brown.

  4. Serve on a hot platter garnished with chopped parsley.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Peanut + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Peanut butter
Forms the creamy filling and provides rich, nutty flavour and fat.
Egg
Binds the coating so the bread takes on a golden, set crust when fried.
Bread
Holds the filling and fries to a crisp, browned exterior.
Butter
Adds fat for frying, promoting browning and a rich flavour on the bread.

The step that matters

Fry the sandwiches in butter until golden brown. Moderate heat lets the egg coating set and the bread brown evenly. Too hot and the outside browns before the egg cooks, while too cool and the sandwich becomes greasy and soggy.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peanut, butter, milk, bread, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Garlicfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against peanut, butter, milk, bread, egg. 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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