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Cream Toast

Cream Toast is toast topped with a creamy coconut butter mixture.

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 ↓

Cream Toast

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the cream

  1. Blend the flour with enough cold milk to form a smooth paste.

  2. Add the paste to the boiling milk and stir constantly until smooth and creamy.

  3. Add a little salt and the coconut butter.

Prepare and serve the toast

  1. Toast the slices of white bread in a 350°F (175°C) oven until golden brown.

  2. Pour boiling water over each slice to soften, then drain.

  3. Place the softened bread on plates and cover with the cream.

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. Butter + breadtop 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. Milk + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Coconut + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,467 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

Milk
Forms the liquid base of the cream, and its proteins and sugars give it body and flavor.
White flour
Its starch swells when heated in the milk, thickening the cream.
Coconut butter
Adds fat that makes the cream richer and smoother on the palate.
White bread
Provides the base that the cream is spooned over, soaking up its moisture.

The step that matters

Add the paste to the boiling milk and stir constantly. Flour lumps if it is not fully dispersed before heating, and starch needs constant stirring to thicken evenly without scorching on the bottom of the pan.

Swap the coconut

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, flour, butter, bread. 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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