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Cheese Eondu

A cheese-based version of the Korean tofu dish, made with bread crumbs, milk, eggs, and cheese, baked until puffed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Cheese Eondu

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

  2. Add the bread crumbs, milk, grated cheese, and egg yolks, and cook for barely a minute.

Finish and bake

  1. Remove from heat and stir in the beaten egg whites.

  2. Season with red pepper and salt.

  3. Pour into paper cases or patty shells.

  4. Bake until puffed and slightly brown.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Beaten whites trap air, helping the mixture puff and rise as it bakes.
Egg yolks
Yolks add richness and help bind the mixture as it sets.
Cheese
Cheese supplies the main flavor and helps the filling set and brown.
Bread crumbs
Crumbs soak up the milk and give the mixture body and a soft texture.
Milk
Milk adds moisture and creates a smooth base for the filling.

The step that matters

Stir in the beaten egg whites off the heat. Beaten whites are fragile. Folding them in gently off the heat keeps the air bubbles intact, which is what makes the mixture puff in the oven.

“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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