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Fried Noodles

A simple fried noodle dish flavored with butter, bread crumbs, salt, and pepper.

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 ↓

Fried Noodles

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the noodles

  1. Cook the noodles or macaroni in enough water to cover until tender, then drain them.

Fry and serve

  1. Melt the butter in a skillet and add the grated bread to the skillet.

  2. Layer the noodles over the bread, then sprinkle with salt and pepper.

  3. Cook for a few minutes until the bread crumbs are nicely browned.

  4. Stir lightly and 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.

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. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Noodles or macaroni
Form the main body of the dish and absorb flavour from the butter and seasoning.
Butter
Fat that carries heat to the bread and helps it brown evenly in the skillet.
Grated bread
Forms a crisp, golden crust when fried in butter, adding texture to the soft noodles.

The step that matters

Browning the bread crumbs. Bread crumbs can burn quickly once the butter is hot, while pale crumbs taste flat. Cook over moderate heat and stir lightly so they brown evenly.

“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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