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Fried Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich of bread and cheese fried in butter until golden and cheese melts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Fried Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the bread into thin slices.

  2. Place a layer of cheese between two slices of bread.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat a skillet and add butter.

  2. Fry one side until golden brown.

  3. Turn the sandwich, cover it closely, and let it brown slowly on the other side until the cheese is melted.

  4. Serve immediately.

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 + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

Bread
Forms the outer structure and browns in the butter to a crisp golden crust.
Cheese
Melts between the slices to bind the sandwich and add richness.
Butter
Conducts heat into the bread and promotes golden browning in the skillet.

The step that matters

Browning the second side slowly under cover. Keeping the heat moderate and the pan covered lets the cheese melt through before the bread over-browns or burns. Browning relies on sugars and proteins reacting at high surface temperature, so too much heat darkens the crust before the interior softens.

“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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