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Cheese Cream Toast

A toasted bread topped with grated cheese and a thickened milk and flour sauce, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Cheese Cream Toast

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the toast

  1. Toast the slices of stale bread.

  2. Cover the toasted bread with grated cheese.

Make the cream sauce

  1. In a saucepan, bring 1 pint of milk to a boil.

  2. Mix 2 tablespoons of plain flour with a little cold water, then stir into the boiling milk.

  3. Cook the mixture until it thickens.

  4. Season the thickened mixture with coarse sea salt and butter.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the toast and cheese in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 3-4 minutes.

  2. Pour the cream over the toast and cheese before serving.

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. 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. Bread + cheesetop 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

Stale bread
Forms the base that holds the cheese and cream sauce.
Grated cheese
Melts over the toast, adding richness and savoury flavour.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the cream sauce.
Plain flour
Thickens the milk into a smooth sauce as it cooks.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the finished sauce.

The step that matters

Cooking the flour mixture until it thickens. Flour must be fully cooked in the hot liquid so the starch swells and thickens the sauce. Stirring it in as a smooth slurry first helps prevent lumps from forming.

“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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