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Strawberry Toast

A sweet toast topped with butter, sugar, and sliced strawberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and french toast work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 32 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Strawberry Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the topping

  1. Cream together the butter and sugar until well mixed.

  2. Cut the strawberries into pieces and mix them with the butter and sugar.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour the strawberry mixture over slices of French toast on a platter.

  2. 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. Sugar + french toasttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + french toasttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and fat, and creaming with sugar makes the topping smooth and spreadable.
Sugar
Sweetens the topping and helps the butter blend into a smooth, creamy mixture.
Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor, sweetness, and moisture that soaks into the toast.
French toast slices
Form the base that holds and soaks up the warm strawberry topping.

“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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