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Dresden Sandwiches

A sandwich made by soaking bread in an egg, milk, and sugar mixture, then frying and filling with jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 ↓

Dresden Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the egg mixture

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

  2. Add salt, sugar, and milk; mix well.

  3. Soak the bread slices in the egg mixture until soft.

Cook and assemble

  1. Heat a griddle and butter it well.

  2. Cook the soaked bread on the griddle until browned on both sides.

  3. Spread half of the slices with jam or marmalade.

  4. Top with the remaining slices to form sandwiches.

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. 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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the soaked bread and set into a custard-like coating when cooked.
Milk
Thins the egg mixture so it soaks into the bread and keeps it moist.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the surface brown on the griddle.
Bread
Absorbs the egg mixture and provides the structure of the sandwich.

The step that matters

Soak the bread until soft. Bread that is soaked too briefly stays dry in the center, while over-soaking makes it fall apart on the griddle. The bread should absorb the egg mixture fully but still hold its shape when lifted.

“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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