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Toasted Cheese

A toasted bread topped with a melted cheese mixture made from cheese, cream, egg yolk, butter, and cayenne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Toasted Cheese

Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Toasted Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cheese mixture

  1. Melt the cheese slowly in the boiling cream over low heat.

  2. Once hot, remove from heat and stir in the yolk of egg and butter.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place the toast on a hot-water dish and spread the cheese mixture over the toast.

  2. Optionally, place the dish before the fire to toast the cheese before serving.

  3. Serve immediately to prevent the cheese from toughening.

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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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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese
Melts into a creamy sauce that gives the toast its rich flavour and body.
Cream
Melts with the cheese to form a smooth, fluid base that keeps the mixture spreadable.
Egg yolk
Enriches the mixture and helps it thicken and set smoothly as it cools.
Butter
Adds fat for a glossy texture and rich mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Serve immediately. Cheese sauces toughen and turn grainy as they cool and their proteins tighten, so the topped toast should go out while the mixture is still soft and smooth.

“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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