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Tongue Toast

A toast topped with a creamy mixture of minced boiled tongue, cream, and beaten egg yolks.

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

Tongue Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the topping

  1. Mince the cold boiled tongue finely.

  2. Mix the minced tongue with the cream or milk.

  3. Add the beaten egg yolks to the mixture.

  4. Place the mixture over low heat and let it simmer for 1-2 minutes.

Serve

  1. Butter the toasted bread and place it on a hot dish.

  2. Pour the mixture over the buttered toast and serve hot.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Cold boiled tongue
Forms the savoury main body of the topping.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and softens the mixture into a spreadable texture.
Egg yolks
Thickens the mixture as it heats, giving it a creamy body.
Toasted bread
Provides a crisp base that holds the warm topping.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the toast, improving flavour and moistness.

The step that matters

Simmering the egg yolk mixture over low heat. Egg yolks thicken from gentle heat but can scramble or curdle if overheated. Keeping the heat low and the time short keeps the mixture smooth and creamy.

“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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