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Amorita French Toast

A sweetened batter-soaked zwieback served fried with sugar and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Amorita French Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, beat together the milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, salt, and flour until well combined.

  2. Place the zwieback slices on a platter and pour the batter over them, turning frequently until well soaked.

Fry and serve

  1. In a skillet, heat butter over medium heat and fry the soaked zwieback until golden brown on both sides.

  2. Sprinkle the fried slices with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon.

  3. Serve hot with jam, jelly, blueberry sauce, apple sauce, or plain.

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

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

  2. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and help set the soaked slices as they cook.
Zwieback
Provides the bread base that soaks up the batter and fries to a crisp outside.
Milk
Moistens the batter so the zwieback soaks through evenly.
Flour
Thickens the batter slightly so it clings to the slices.

The step that matters

Soaking the zwieback. Zwieback is dry and brittle, so it needs enough time in the batter to soak through. Turning it often lets the batter reach the centre, so the slices fry evenly rather than staying dry inside or burning on the outside.

“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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