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Cheese Ramakins

Cheese Ramakins are small baked cheese and bread cakes made with milk, eggs, butter, and cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Cheese Ramakins

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the base

  1. Soak the stale bread in the milk over low heat until smooth and hot.

  2. Remove from heat and stir in the egg yolks, butter, ordinary cheese, Parmesan or sapsago, salt, and red pepper.

Bake

  1. Fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

  2. Fill small paper cases or individual moulds with the mixture.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 5 to 6 minutes.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Forms the body of the mixture and soaks up milk to give a soft, custard-like crumb.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help the mixture set as it bakes.
Egg whites
Whipped and folded in, they trap air so the ramekins rise and turn light.
Butter
Adds fat for a tender texture and rich flavour.
Parmesan or sapsago cheese
Adds sharp, savoury flavour and a little browning on the surface.
Ordinary cheese
Adds milder cheese flavour and moisture to the mixture.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Egg whites hold air only while they are whipped. Vigorous stirring knocks that air out, so the ramekins bake flat and dense instead of rising light.

“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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