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Milk Toast I

Milk Toast is toasted bread soaked in hot milk, buttered and seasoned with salt and pepper.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 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 ↓

Milk Toast I

Serves 1

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat the milk to the simmering point.

  2. Generously butter the toast slices.

  3. Heat a pretty bowl, deeper than it is wide.

Assemble and serve

  1. Break the hot buttered toast into the bowl.

  2. Pour the steaming but not boiling milk over the toast.

  3. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper on the top.

  4. Serve at once.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

763Calories
22 gProtein
26 gFat
109 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Milk
Softens the toast and forms the moist, creamy body of the dish.
Bread
Soaks up the warm milk, giving the dish its substance and soft texture.
Sweet butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavour and softens the toast.

The step that matters

Pour the milk steaming but not boiling. Boiling milk can scorch or form a skin and turn harsh in flavour, while milk that is only steaming warms the bread gently and lets it soak up the liquid evenly without breaking down.

“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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