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Fbbnoh Toast

A dish of stale bread soaked in beaten eggs and milk, then fried in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Fbbnoh Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Beat together the eggs and milk in a bowl.

Cook and serve

  1. Dip the sliced stale bread into the egg and milk mixture.

  2. Lay the dipped bread on a hot buttered griddle.

  3. Brown both sides of the bread and butter while hot.

  4. Serve with cream for added flavor.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Its dry, open crumb soaks up the egg mixture and holds its shape while cooking.
Eggs
They set when heated, binding the bread into a custard-like crust and adding richness.
Milk
It thins the egg mixture so it coats and soaks into the bread, adding moisture.
Butter
It browns on the hot griddle, adding fat, flavor and golden color to the surface.

The step that matters

Brown both sides of the bread and butter while hot. The griddle must be hot enough to brown the bread quickly. If it is too cool, the soaked bread steeps and turns soggy before a golden crust forms.

“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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