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Cheese and Egg Toast

A toasted bread topped with a cheese and egg mixture, baked until set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 and Egg Toast

Oven, in the book's wordsA warm oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cheese sauce

  1. Grate the cheese into the milk and heat in a saucepan.

  2. Once the cheese is melted, add the beaten eggs, salt, and pepper.

  3. Stir continuously until the mixture is smooth.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture on each slice of toast.

  2. Place the toast in a warm oven to dry.

  3. 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. 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. 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

Cheese
Melts into the milk to give the mixture a rich, savory flavor and creamy body.
Eggs
Set when heated, thickening the mixture so it holds on the toast.
Milk
Provides the liquid that melts the cheese and keeps the mixture smooth and moist.
Bread
Forms a crisp base that supports the warm, thickened topping.

The step that matters

Stir continuously until smooth. Egg proteins begin to set and curdle when heated, and the mixture can turn grainy or scrambled if it sits still over heat. Constant stirring spreads the heat evenly and keeps the eggs blended into a smooth 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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