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Cheese and Bacon Sandwich

A sandwich of eggs, cheese, bacon, and spices, broiled until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread 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 ↓

Cheese and Bacon Sandwich

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the topping

  1. Beat together the eggs, grated cheese, A. 1. Sauce, salt, and paprika until well combined.

  2. Toast the slices of bread on one side.

Assemble and broil

  1. Place the toasted bread on a broiler, toasted side down.

  2. Cover the bread with the cheese mixture and arrange a slice of partially cooked bacon on each sandwich.

  3. Broil until the cheese is brown and the bacon is crisp.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Cheese + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + cheesetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,253 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
Bind the cheese mixture and help it set into a custard-like topping under heat.
Grated cheese
Melts and browns under the broiler to form the main savoury topping.
Partially cooked bacon
Finishes crisp under the broiler, adding salty, smoky flavour and texture.

The step that matters

Broil until the cheese is brown and the bacon is crisp. The cheese and bacon cook quickly under intense top heat. Too little time leaves the egg-cheese topping raw and the bacon limp, while too much can scorch the cheese and dry the bread.

“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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