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Bread Patties for Four Persons

Bread patties are toasted bread rings filled with creamed oysters, creamed chicken, creamed hard-boiled eggs, or peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and oyster are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,545 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Bread Patties for Four Persons

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

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

Cut and assemble

  1. Cut 12 slices of bread into 12 rounds using a biscuit cutter.

  2. Use a smaller cutter to remove the centers from 8 of the rounds.

  3. Dip a ring lightly in egg white.

  4. Place the ring on a solid round.

  5. Add another ring on top to complete one patty.

Toast and fill

  1. Toast the patties quickly in a 400°F (200°C) oven until brown.

  2. Fill the toasted patties with creamed oysters, creamed chicken, creamed hard-boiled eggs, or peas.

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 + oystertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Egg + oystertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,103 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Forms the structure of the patty and toasts into a crisp shell that holds the filling.
Egg white
Acts as a light glue that binds the stacked bread rings together while toasting.

The step that matters

Toast the patties quickly until brown. Dry oven heat dries and browns the bread, firming the shell so it holds the filling. Over-toasting makes the bread brittle and can cause the rings to separate.

“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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