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Smoked Meat on Toast

A toasted bread topped with a mixture of smoked meat, cream, egg yolk, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Smoked Meat on Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the topping

  1. Boil the smoked meat.

  2. Grate the boiled smoked meat on a coarse grater or mince it finely.

  3. Mix the grated meat with cream, egg yolk, and pepper.

  4. Simmer the mixture over low heat.

Assemble and serve

  1. Prepare slices of buttered toast and place them in a heated dish.

  2. Spread the hot meat mixture over each slice of toast.

  3. Serve immediately in a covered dish.

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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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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  4. Meat + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Smoked meat
Provides the savoury, salty main flavour and the bulk of the topping.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness so the meat mixture spreads softly rather than drying out.
Egg yolk
Thickens the cream mixture as it heats, giving it a spreadable, custard-like body.

The step that matters

Simmering the mixture over low heat. Egg yolk thickens when heated gently but scrambles and curdles at high heat. Low, steady heat and constant stirring keep the topping smooth and spreadable.

“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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