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Pulled Bread

Pulled bread is toasted bread flakes made by pulling apart a loaf and toasting them until crisp.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pulled Bread

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the loaf

  1. Remove the inside of the loaf and pull it apart into large flakes using two forks.

Toast the flakes

  1. Toast the flakes in a 400°F (200°C) oven until light brown and crisp.

Alternative: cut and toast strips

  1. Alternatively, cut the loaf into slices about 1 inch thick and trim off the crust.

  2. Cut the slices into 1-inch thick strips, loosen them lightly with a fork, and toast on a pan in the oven.

Check dryness

  1. Ensure the toast is very dry, without any soft crumb inside.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Toasting dries the crumb, turning the loaf into light brown, crisp flakes or strips.

The step that matters

Toasting until very dry. Any moisture left in the crumb keeps the pieces soft and chewy instead of crisp. Drying the bread fully in the oven is what sets its crunch.

“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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