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Cheese Ramokin

Cheese Ramokin is a baked cheese roll made with bread crumbs, milk, butter, peppers, onions, eggs, and topped with grated cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Cheese Ramokin

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the base

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in the sweet milk.

  2. Heat the mixture over hot water.

  3. Add the butter, green pepper, and onion.

  4. Remove from heat.

  5. Stir in the beaten yolks of the eggs.

  6. Gently fold in the egg whites.

Bake and serve

  1. Transfer to a buttered dish.

  2. Bake at 300°F (150°C) until set, if desired.

  3. Serve sprinkled with grated cheese.

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

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

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

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 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

Eggs
Egg yolks enrich and bind the custard, while whipped whites lighten the texture and help it rise and set.
Bread crumbs
Soaked in milk, they absorb liquid and give the mixture body and a soft, tender crumb.
Sweet milk
Provides the liquid that softens the bread crumbs and sets into a creamy custard base.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, tender texture.

The step that matters

Gently fold in the egg whites. Whipped egg whites trap air that gives the dish its lift. Stirring them vigorously deflates the foam, so the roll bakes up dense instead of light.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, butter, pepper, egg, cheese. 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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