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Christiana Toast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Horse and radish work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 529 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Christiana Toast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Warm the slices of brown bread until heated through.

  2. Spread horse-radish butter over each slice.

  3. Layer with strips of smoked salmon, caviar, and marinated filleted herring.

  4. Use a sharp fancy cutter to stamp the garnished slices into shapes.

  5. Serve immediately.

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. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

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

  3. Salmon + caviartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Butter + caviartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together107 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Bread + caviartop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together65 recipes

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

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

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, horse, butter, salmon, caviar):

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, horse, butter, salmon, caviar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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