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Tongue Toast

A toast topped with a mixture of minced boiled tongue, cream or milk, egg yolks, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Tongue Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tongue mixture

  1. Finely mince the cold boiled tongue.

  2. Mix the minced tongue with the cream or milk.

  3. Add the well-beaten yolks of the eggs to the mixture.

  4. Place the mixture over low heat and let it simmer for 1-2 minutes.

Assemble and serve

  1. Butter the toasted bread and place it on a hot dish.

  2. Pour the mixture over the buttered toast 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.

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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Thicken the cream mixture gently as they set over low heat, giving it a creamy, cohesive texture.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and richness, loosening the tongue so it spreads smoothly over the toast.
Cold boiled tongue
Provides the main savoury flavour and body of the topping.

The step that matters

Simmering the egg mixture. Egg yolks thicken when heated gently but can curdle or turn grainy if overheated. Keeping the heat low and the simmer brief lets the mixture become creamy and smooth.

“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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