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Boiled Eggs with Toasted Cheese

A simple dish of sliced boiled eggs served between buttered toast topped with toasted cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Boiled Eggs with Toasted Cheese

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs hard and set them in water to easily remove the shells.

  2. Once shelled, cut the eggs into slices and dust with pepper and salt.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread a little toasted cheese on the buttered bread.

  2. Place the egg slices between the buttered bread and serve.

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

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

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

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

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Eggs
Provide the main filling, adding protein-rich body and a soft, creamy bite to the sandwich.
Butter
Coats the bread, adding richness and helping it brown lightly.
Toasted cheese
Adds savory, rich flavor and a melted, binding layer on the bread.
Thinly cut bread
Forms the structure that holds the eggs and cheese together.

The step that matters

Boil the eggs hard and cool them in water. Fully cooked, firm yolks slice cleanly without crumbling, and chilling in water stops overcooking and makes the shells peel off more easily.

“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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