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Cheese Toast.— a Tasty Breakfast

A breakfast of bread dipped in milk and egg, fried with butter, topped with cream cheese, and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 Toast.— a Tasty Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the egg mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix salt, milk, and beaten eggs.

  2. Dip each slice of bread in the mixture.

Cook

  1. Fry the bread in butter until light brown on one side.

  2. Place a slice of cream cheese on each piece of bread as it is turned.

  3. Cover and cook until the cheese melts and the other side is browned.

Serve

  1. Garnish with parsley and serve on hot plates.

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

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

  3. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Milk + cream cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind with milk to coat the bread and set into a custardy layer when fried.
Bread
Provides the base that absorbs the egg mixture and browns in the butter.
Cream cheese
Melts under cover to add a soft, creamy filling.
Milk
Thins the egg mixture so it soaks evenly into the bread.

The step that matters

Cover and cook until the cheese melts and the other side is browned. Covering traps heat and steam so the cheese melts through while the bread browns. Cooking too hot or too long can scorch the bread before the cheese softens.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

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