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To Fry Bread Crumbs

A simple dish of toasted bread crumbs fried with butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

To Fry Bread Crumbs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub bread crumbs through a fine sieve.

  2. Heat a clean frying pan over moderate heat.

  3. Add the bread crumbs and a piece of fresh butter.

  4. Stir continuously with a wooden spoon until the crumbs are light brown.

  5. Transfer the fried crumbs to a plate.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Form the main body of the dish and brown in the butter to become crisp and toasted.
Fresh butter
Coats the crumbs and carries heat, adding richness and helping them brown evenly.

The step that matters

Stir continuously until light brown. Crumbs contain little moisture and sugar-rich surfaces can scorch quickly over heat. Constant stirring spreads the heat evenly so they brown lightly without burning or turning dark and bitter.

“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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