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Cheese Patties

Cheese patties are small baked patties made with bread crumbs, egg, milk, cheese, butter, mustard, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 Patties

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Line patty pans with cheese pastry.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, mix bread crumbs, raw egg, and milk.

  2. Add cheese, butter, mustard, salt, and pepper; mix well.

  3. Fill the lined patty pans three-quarters full with the mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake until pale brown and the mixture has slightly swelled.

  2. Serve very 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.

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. 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. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Raw egg
Binds the crumbs and milk together and helps the mixture set as it bakes.
Bread crumbs
Provide the bulk of the filling and absorb the liquids to form a soft mixture.
Cheese
Adds rich flavour and savoury taste, and helps the filling brown on top.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture in the baked filling.
Milk
Adds moisture so the crumbs and egg blend into a soft mixture.

The step that matters

Fill the lined patty pans three-quarters full. Overfilling can cause the mixture to spill over the edges while it swells in the oven, while underfilling leaves too little filling to rise and set properly.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, egg, milk, cheese, butter, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, egg, milk, cheese, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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