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Cheese Savoury

A baked cheese and bread pie with egg yolk, egg white, and spices.

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

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 ↓

Cheese Savoury

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the base

  1. Soak the bread in boiling milk until soft.

  2. Beat the soaked bread with a fork.

  3. Mix in the grated cheese, egg yolk, pepper, and salt.

Finish and bake

  1. Whip the egg white to stiff peaks and gently fold it into the mixture.

  2. Pour the mixture into a buttered pie dish.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 20 minutes.

  4. 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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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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cheese + milktop 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

Dry hard cheese
Provides rich savory flavor and sets firm as the custard cooks.
Bread crusts
Soaked in milk, they form the body of the pie and hold its shape.
Milk
Softens the bread and adds moisture for a tender, custard-like texture.
Egg yolk
Enriches the mixture and helps it set when baked.
Egg white
Whipped to stiff peaks, it lightens the mixture and helps it rise in the oven.

The step that matters

Folding in the whipped egg white. Whipped egg white traps air in a foam. Folding gently keeps that air in, so the pie stays light and rises. Stirring hard knocks the air out and leaves a dense result.

“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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