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Scalloped Cheese

A baked dish of buttered bread, grated cheese, eggs, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 7 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 ↓

Scalloped Cheese

four people

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Take three slices of bread well-buttered and cut off the brown outside crust.

  2. Grate fine a quarter of a pound of cheese; lay the bread in layers in a buttered baking dish, sprinkling grated cheese, salt, and pepper over it.

Make the custard

  1. Mix four well-beaten eggs with three cups of milk; pour the mixture over the bread and cheese.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a hot oven as you would cook a bread pudding.

  2. Serve the baked dish to four people.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

801Calories
34 gProtein
24 gFat
110 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
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.

By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.

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

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

  2. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  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

Eggs
Set the custard so the pudding holds together when cut and served.
Milk
Forms the liquid custard that soaks into the bread and keeps the pudding moist.
Bread
Provides the structure that soaks up the custard and bakes into a soft, layered pudding.
Cheese
Adds richness and savory flavor, and melts into the bread and custard.

The step that matters

Bake in a hot oven as you would cook a bread pudding.. The egg and milk custard sets as its proteins coagulate with heat. Too much heat or too long in the oven can make the custard curdle or turn rubbery, so watch for a set centre rather than a hard, dry top.

“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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