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Nut-toast

Nut Toast is a toasted bread topped with butter, nuts, cream, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Nut-toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the toast

  1. Toast and butter the bread slices.

  2. Melt the butter on the toast in the oven.

Add the nuts

  1. Cover the toast thickly with ground nuts.

  2. Dip the nuts in melted butter, turning until heated through.

Finish and serve

  1. Top each slice of toast with a spoonful of hot cream.

  2. Serve two nuts on each slice and garnish with parsley.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Bread + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Forms the sturdy base that holds the toppings and absorbs melted butter.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor, and helps the toast brown as it melts.
Nuts
Provide the main topping, adding texture and a toasted, savory flavor when warmed in butter.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the toast when spooned on hot.

The step that matters

Dipping the nuts in melted butter until heated through. Butter can brown and then burn if it gets too hot, and overheated nuts can turn bitter. Gentle, even heat warms the nuts through and lightly toasts them without scorching.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, nuts, cream. 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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