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Sueprise Bread

Bread slices stuffed with minced meat and gravy, fried and served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,031 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Sueprise Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Cut bread into pieces about 1.5 inches thick and remove the crust.

  2. Cut each piece into a diamond shape and make a hole the size of an egg.

Fry and fill

  1. Fry the bread in hot oil until golden brown, then drain on paper towels.

  2. Mix minced meat with rich gravy and fill the fried bread.

Serve

  1. Serve with tomato sauce.

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. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  4. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Bread + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Forms the crisp fried shell that holds the filling.
Minced chicken, veal, rabbit, or game
Provides the savory meat filling that gives the dish its body.
Rich gravy
Adds moisture to the minced meat so the filling stays tender rather than dry.
Tomato sauce
Adds acidity and brightness to balance the rich fried bread and meat.

The step that matters

Fry the bread in hot oil until golden brown. Hot oil sets the crust quickly, so the bread browns and crisps without soaking up grease. If the oil is too cool, the bread absorbs oil and turns heavy and greasy before it colors.

“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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