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Toasted Cheese

A simple dish of sliced cheese broiled until lightly browned, served with bread, mustard, and coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Toasted Cheese

Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Toasted Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the cheese into ¼‑inch thick slices.

  2. Place the slices in an oyster broiler.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil over very hot coals, turning frequently, until each side is lightly browned.

  2. Serve with bread.

  3. Eat with mustard and coarse sea salt.

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

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

  2. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Bread + mustardtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese
Melts and browns on the surface, forming the main body of the dish.
Bread
Serves as a base to hold the softened, browned cheese.

The step that matters

Turning the cheese while broiling. Turning frequently helps each side brown evenly without the cheese over-heating in one spot and burning or dripping away before it has softened through.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Mustardthe original
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Asparagusfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, 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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