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Cheese and Bread Toast

A toasted bread topped with a mixture of grated cheese, bread, egg yolk, butter, cream, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 and Bread 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 topping

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

  2. In a bowl, mix the grated cheese, grated bread, egg yolk, butter, cream, salt, cayenne, and mustard until well combined.

Assemble and bake

  1. Toast the bread slices until golden brown.

  2. Spread the cheese mixture thickly on the toasted bread.

  3. Place the prepared toast in the oven for 1-2 minutes until hot.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately, or make a sandwich with another slice of bread on top.

  2. Cut into four pieces with a sharp knife.

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Pepper + mustardtop 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

Grated cheese
Melts into the topping and provides savoury flavour and a rich, stretchy texture.
Egg yolk
Adds richness and helps bind the cheese mixture so it holds together when spread.
Rich cream
Adds moisture and fat, keeping the topping soft and creamy rather than dry.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the topping brown lightly in the oven.
Grated bread
Acts as a filler that absorbs moisture and gives the topping body.

The step that matters

Bake for only 1-2 minutes until hot. The topping contains egg yolk and cream, which can curdle or dry out if overheated. Heating just until hot and bubbling keeps the texture smooth and creamy.

Swap the mustard

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

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

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