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Tongue Toast

A dish of minced boiled tongue mixed with cream or milk and eggs, served over buttered toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Tongue Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tongue mixture

  1. Finely mince the cold boiled tongue.

  2. Mix the minced tongue with the cream or milk.

  3. Add the well-beaten yolks of the eggs to the mixture.

  4. Place the mixture over low heat and let it simmer for 1-2 minutes.

Assemble and serve

  1. Prepare some nicely toasted bread and butter it.

  2. Place the buttered toast on a hot dish and pour the tongue mixture over it. 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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Cold boiled tongue
Supplies the main meaty flavour and bulk of the dish.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and a soft, creamy texture to the mixture.
Eggs
Yolks thicken the mixture gently when heated, binding it together.
Bread
Provides a toasted base that soaks up the creamy mixture.

The step that matters

Simmering the yolks over low heat. Egg yolks thicken through gentle heat, but high heat can curdle or scramble them. Keeping the heat low and the time short gives a smooth, lightly set mixture.

“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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