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Vitelsh Rabbit

A toasted bread topped with a melted cheese and egg mixture flavored with mustard and wine.

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

Vitelsh Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cheese mixture

  1. Grease a saucepan with butter.

  2. Cut the cheese into small pieces and add to the saucepan.

  3. Stir the cheese until it melts.

  4. Beat the eggs and stir them into the melted cheese.

  5. Add the mustard and wine, stirring for a few more minutes.

Toast and serve

  1. Toast the bread and spread the cheese mixture over it.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 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. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

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

  5. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese
Melts into the base of the sauce and provides the main flavor and richness.
Eggs
Set as they heat, thickening the cheese mixture and giving it body.
Butter
Greases the pan to prevent sticking and adds richness.
Wine
Adds acidity that helps keep the melted cheese smooth.
Mustard
Adds sharp, savory flavor that balances the richness of the cheese.
Bread
Provides the crisp toasted base that holds the cheese mixture.

The step that matters

Stirring the beaten eggs into the melted cheese. Eggs can scramble or curdle if the mixture is too hot or they are added too quickly. Keeping the heat gentle and stirring constantly lets the eggs blend in and thicken the mixture smoothly.

Swap the mustard

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, butter, egg, wine, bread. 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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