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Egg Toast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and cranberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 116 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Egg Toast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak slices of stale bread in milk.

  2. In a bowl, beat eggs with a little salt and cinnamon.

  3. Dip the soaked bread into the egg mixture.

  4. Fry the bread in hot butter until golden brown.

  5. Serve with apple, cranberry, or apricot sauce, or with syrup and lettuce.

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. Cinnamon + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Apple + cranberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

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

  5. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, egg, cinnamon, butter, sauce, cranberry):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Applethe original
  4. Peachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, egg, cinnamon, butter, sauce, cranberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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