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Supper Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with stale bread, American cheese paste, and butter, fried until golden.

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 ↓

Supper Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Cut thin slices of stale bread into rounds using a biscuit cutter.

  2. Cut thin slices of buttered bread into rounds with a cake cutter.

Make the filling

  1. Mix grated American cheese with a little chicken stock until it forms a paste.

  2. Season the cheese paste with coarse sea salt and cayenne pepper.

  3. Spread the cheese paste on the buttered bread rounds.

  4. Press the cheese-coated bread rounds together firmly.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the sandwiches in hot dripping or a mixture of half butter and half cottolene until golden.

  2. Drain the sandwiches on paper towels.

  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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Cheese + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Forms the sturdy rounds that hold the filling and crisp when fried.
Grated american cheese
Melts into the filling, providing rich flavor and a savory, binding paste.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the bread and helps it brown in the frying fat.
Cottolene
Provides a high-heat frying fat that gives the sandwiches an even golden crust.

The step that matters

Fry the sandwiches in hot dripping or a mixture of half butter and half cottolene until golden.. The fat must be hot enough to brown the bread quickly. If it is too cool, the sandwiches absorb grease and turn soggy before the crust sets and the cheese softens.

“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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