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Grated Cheese with Apples and Buttered Bread

A sandwich of grated cheese and apple pieces served on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Grated Cheese with Apples and Buttered Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grate the cheese and store it in a glass jar or paper bag.

  2. Peel and cut the apples into small pieces.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the grated cheese with the apple pieces.

  2. Serve with buttered bread.

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

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

  2. Cheese + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

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

  3. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Swiss or american cheese
Provides rich flavor and a melty, creamy texture in the filling.
Apples
Add crisp texture and a mild sweetness that contrasts with the salty cheese.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, bread):

  1. Figfits about as well
  2. Applethe original
  3. Pearfits about as well
  4. Plumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, bread. 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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