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Beauebgabd Toast

Toast topped with white sauce of milk, butter, flour, pepper, and cayenne, mixed with diced egg whites and mushrooms, finished with egg yolks and cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Beauebgabd Toast

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Make a white sauce by combining milk, butter, flour, black pepper, salt, and cayenne in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Stir in the diced egg whites and finely chopped mushrooms.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place the toast on a serving plate and pour the sauce over it.

  2. Force the egg yolks through a strainer and sprinkle them over the top along with the grated cheese.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the milk and butter into a white sauce.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the white sauce.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the sauce that thickens when heated.
Hard-cooked eggs
Add body and substance, with yolks giving a soft, crumbly topping.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and moisture to the sauce.
Grated cheese
Adds savory flavor and richness to the topping.

The step that matters

Stir in the diced egg whites and finely chopped mushrooms. Flour thickens the sauce only while it is heated and stirred, so the sauce should be smooth and thick before the mix-ins go in. Lumps from unstirred flour will not smooth out later.

“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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