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Cheese and Egg Toast

A toasted bread topped with a cheese and egg mixture cooked in milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Cheese and Egg Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cheese sauce

  1. Boil the milk in a saucepan until it melts the cheese crumbs.

  2. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

  3. Season the milk with salt, pepper, and butter.

  4. Stir in the beaten eggs.

  5. Cook for a few minutes.

  6. Remove from heat.

Serve

  1. Spread the mixture over hot toasted bread.

  2. Cut the toast into halves and quarters.

  3. Serve on a hot platter.

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

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese crumbs
Melt into the hot milk to make a rich, savory base for the topping.
Rich milk
Liquid that melts the cheese and forms the body of the sauce.
Eggs
Thicken the hot milk mixture as they cook, giving it a soft, spreadable texture.

The step that matters

Cook for a few minutes after stirring in the eggs. Egg proteins set with gentle heat and can curdle or scramble if overheated. Cook gently and remove from heat once the mixture thickens to keep it smooth.

“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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