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Strasshurg Croutons

Croutons made from stale bread, buttered, topped with foie gras, eggs, pepper, and salt, then baked.

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 ↓

Strasshurg Croutons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Cut the crusts from the bread squares and butter them thinly.

  2. Dust the buttered bread lightly with pepper.

  3. Spread a layer of foie gras on top.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook the bread in a well-greased bag for 5 minutes.

  2. Open the bag and crack an egg onto each square of bread.

  3. Dust the eggs with pepper and a little salt.

  4. Cook for another 4 minutes.

  5. Serve immediately on a very hot dish.

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

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

  3. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Provides a firm base that holds the toppings while cooking.
Eggs
Set as they cook, forming a tender topping over the bread.
Foie gras
Melts into the warm bread, adding richness and fat.
Butter
Adds fat that browns the bread and carries flavour.

The step that matters

Cook the bread in a well-greased bag for 5 minutes. The bag must be well greased so the bread and butter do not stick, and the bag traps heat and moisture around the bread. Keep the timing in mind so the bread is partly cooked before the eggs go on.

“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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