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A sweet bread dish soaked, boiled, cooled, sliced, fried in eggs and coated with cracker crumbs, served with a cream gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sweet Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Soak the sweet bread in water for one hour.

  2. Boil the soaked bread for twenty minutes.

  3. Transfer the bread to cold water until it cools.

  4. Remove the skin from the bread.

  5. Store the bread in a cool place until the next morning.

  6. Cut the bread into pieces.

Fry and coat

  1. Fry the pieces in beaten eggs.

  2. Coat the fried pieces with cracker crumbs.

Make the gravy

  1. Prepare a gravy using 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. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Bread + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs bind the coating so the cracker crumbs stick to the fried pieces.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating on the outside of the fried pieces.
Cream
Adds richness and body to the gravy.

“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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