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With Cherry Marmalade

A fried buttered bread topped with a warm cherry marmalade and milk mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

With Cherry Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut stale white bread into narrow pieces, about the thickness of a finger.

  2. Fry the bread in butter until golden.

  3. Arrange the fried bread in a salad bowl or deep dish.

Make the cherry sauce

  1. In a saucepan, heat cherry marmalade with milk or cream and sugar until it thickens to a creamy consistency.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour the cherry mixture over the bread, cover, and serve hot.

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

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Cherry + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Bread + cherrytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together57 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

Stale white bread
Its dry, firm crumb holds its shape when fried and soaked in the sauce.
Butter
Fat that browns the bread surface and adds rich flavour.
Cherry marmalade
Provides fruit sweetness and flavour, and thickens with heat to coat the bread.
Milk or cream
Adds moisture and richness, giving the sauce a creamy texture.

The step that matters

Heating the marmalade with milk or cream. Heat must be moderate so the dairy does not scorch or separate, while the sauce thickens to a smooth, creamy consistency. Stirring keeps the mixture even.

Swap the cherry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Cherrythe original

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