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Fried Bread Crumbs

Fried bread crumbs are made by crushing old bread and frying it in butter until lightly browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Fried Bread Crumbs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the bread into very smooth crumbs.

Fry the crumbs

  1. In a stew-pan, melt some butter over moderate heat.

  2. Add the crumbs and stir constantly with a wooden spoon until they are a fine light brown.

  3. Spread the crumbs on a sieve to drain and stir occasionally.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides the crumbs that crisp and brown in the butter.
Butter
Fat that fries the crumbs, adding richness and helping them brown.

The step that matters

Stirring the crumbs while they fry. Constant stirring keeps the fine crumbs moving so they brown evenly to a light colour without scorching. Once they darken too far they turn bitter, so the colour must be watched closely.

“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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