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Quail on Toast

A dish of cooked quail served on toast with melted butter, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Quail and butter work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 512 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Quail on Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the quail

  1. Cook quail in a little salted water until tender.

  2. Remove quail and broil until browned.

Serve

  1. Serve the quail on toast.

  2. Pour melted butter over the quail and toast.

  3. Season with pepper and salt.

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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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. Quail + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together512 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Quail + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together391 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  3. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Quail
Provides the main protein, which cooks through in salted water and browns under the broiler.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture, coating the quail and toast as it is poured over.
Toast
Gives a crisp base that soaks up the butter and juices from the quail.

The step that matters

Broil until browned. Quail is lean and cooks fast, so it can dry out. Browning under high heat should be brief, and the bird should be removed once it has just coloured.

“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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