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Bread Ptoanuis

A baked bread-like dish made with breadcrumbs, peanuts, onion, milk, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Bread Ptoanuis

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

  2. Brown the minced onion in a pan.

  3. Put the bread crumbs through a mincer after shelling the peanuts.

Bake

  1. In a bowl, combine the bread crumbs, milk, ground peanuts, salt, minced onion, and powdered herb. Mix well and transfer to a buttered pie dish.

  2. Bake slowly until nicely browned, about 30-40 minutes.

  3. If it appears too dry, add a little water or a few pieces of butter on top.

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. Bread + buttertop 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. Onion + peanuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,043 recipes

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

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Onion + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Provides the bulk and absorbs the milk to form a soft, moist body.
Ground peanuts
Adds richness, nutty flavor and body to the bread.
Milk
Moistens the crumbs so the mixture binds and stays tender while baking.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness and aroma as it softens and browns.

The step that matters

Bake slowly until nicely browned. A low oven heats the mixture gently so it sets and browns evenly without drying out. If it looks too dry, the record suggests adding a little water or butter.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Sagethe original

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