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Cheese Foxdu

A cheese and egg mixture cooked with wine and onion juice, served on toast and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Foxdu

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelette

  1. Combine thinly sliced cheese, onion juice, wine, and butter in a chafing dish, then stir until melted.

  2. Break in the eggs and season with paprika.

  3. Simmer until the eggs are set, stirring occasionally with a fork.

Serve

  1. Serve on hot toast and sprinkle with parsley.

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. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  2. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Wine + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a soft, sliceable custard that forms the body of the omelette.
Thinly sliced cheese
Melts into the mixture, adding richness and savoury flavour.
Butter
Melts with the cheese to add fat, richness and a smooth texture.
Wine
Adds acidity and moisture to the melted cheese base.

The step that matters

Simmer until the eggs are set. Eggs turn firm when heated, and overheating makes them tough and grainy. Stirring gently with a fork keeps the curds small and the texture tender, so stop once the eggs are just set.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wine, butter, egg, cheese, parsley):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, butter, egg, cheese, parsley. 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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