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Toasted Crumbs

A simple toasted crumb mixture made from coarse bread crumbs and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Toasted Crumbs

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Melt butter in a dripping pan.

Toast the crumbs

  1. Add coarse bread crumbs to the pan and mix well.

  2. Toast the crumbs in the oven until golden brown, stirring occasionally.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Coarse bread crumbs
Provide the base that toasts into crisp, golden, crunchy pieces.
Butter
Coats the crumbs and carries heat, helping them brown evenly and taste rich.

The step that matters

Toast the crumbs until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Stirring spreads the butter and heat evenly so crumbs brown uniformly. Pulling them too late can leave burnt edges, since small dry pieces darken quickly once their surface sugars and proteins begin to caramelize.

“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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