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Cheese and Egg Sandwiches

A sandwich made by cooking eggs with milk, salt, pepper, butter, bread crumbs, and cheese, then placing the mixture between bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 and Egg Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl for 2 minutes.

  2. Add the milk, salt, and white pepper.

  3. Melt the butter in a small frying pan.

  4. Pour in the egg mixture and stir until it begins to thicken.

  5. Sprinkle in the bread crumbs and cheese, and stir for a few more minutes.

Assemble

  1. Remove from heat and place 1 tablespoon of the mixture between 2 slices of bread.

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. Butter + breadtop 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
Set when cooked, giving the filling its body and structure.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the scrambled egg mixture.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help thicken the filling.
Cheese
Melts into the warm egg, adding richness and savory flavor.

The step that matters

Pour in the egg mixture and stir until it begins to thicken. Eggs set quickly from heat, so stirring gently over moderate heat keeps the curds soft. Overcooking makes the filling dry and rubbery.

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

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