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Toasted Cheese

A lightly sweetened cheese omelette with cracker crumbs and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Toasted Cheese

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Toasted Cheese

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs well in separate bowls, then combine them.

  2. Add sweet milk, grated cheese, cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter. Mix well.

  3. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook in the same pan for 10 to 15 minutes until set.

  2. 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.

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

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

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set to form the structure of the omelette as they cook.
Sweet milk
Adds moisture and softness to the eggs as they cook.
Grated cheese
Melts into the eggs, adding richness and flavor.
Cracker crumbs
Absorb liquid and add body to the mixture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps prevent sticking in the pan.

The step that matters

Cook in the same pan for 10 to 15 minutes until set. Eggs turn firm as their proteins coagulate with heat. Cooking too long or too hot makes them tough and dry, so cook gently until just set.

“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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