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Cheese Dish

A hot cheese dip made with eggs, milk, butter, bread crumbs, and American cheese, served on crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 Dish

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dip

  1. Melt the butter in a chafing dish over medium heat.

  2. Add the milk, bread crumbs, cheese, paprika, and salt; stir constantly until well blended.

  3. Add the beaten eggs and cook for one minute.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately on hot crackers.

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. Butter + breadtop 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 + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cheesetop 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

Eggs
Set and thicken the dip as they cook, giving it body.
American cheese
Melts into the milk to give the dip its smooth, rich body and flavor.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the cheese melts into and carries the other ingredients.
Fresh bread crumbs
Soak up liquid and help thicken the dip.

The step that matters

Adding the beaten eggs. Eggs set when heated, and adding them to a hot mixture without constant stirring can make them curdle or cook unevenly. Keep stirring gently while they cook for the one minute called for.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk, butter, bread, cheese):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, butter, bread, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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