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Baked Welsh Rabbit

A baked cheese casserole with bread crumbs, paprika, butter, milk, and eggs.

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 ↓

Baked Welsh Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Assemble

  1. Slice the cheese and place one-third in a buttered baking dish over a layer of bread crumbs.

  2. Season with paprika and cover with more bread crumbs.

  3. Add another third of the cheese, season, and sprinkle with crumbs.

  4. Top with the remaining cheese, add bits of butter, and pour over the milk beaten with the eggs.

Bake

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 25 minutes.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mild cheese
Melts into the creamy, sauce-like body of the dish.
Eggs
Set when baked, giving the custard-like structure that holds the dish together.
Milk
Provides moisture and liquid that the eggs set into a soft custard.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the melted cheese and milk, adding body and a lightly textured layer.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, helping the top brown and the dish taste rounded.

The step that matters

Pour the egg-milk mixture evenly over the cheese layers. Eggs set into a custard as they bake. Pouring it slowly and evenly lets the liquid soak through the crumbs and cheese, so the dish sets uniformly instead of becoming watery in some spots and rubbery in others.

“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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