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Cheese Toasts

Cheese Toasts are toasted bread topped with a melted cheese and egg mixture.

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 Toasts

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the cheese into very thin slices.

Make the cheese mixture

  1. In a frying pan, combine the cheese, milk, butter, salt, and pepper.

  2. Stir over medium heat until the cheese melts.

  3. Add the beaten eggs and another ½ cup of milk, cooking for one minute.

Serve

  1. Spread the mixture over the toasted bread and serve hot.

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + milktop 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

Old cheese
Melts into a smooth, savory base that gives the topping its flavor and body.
Eggs
Set when cooked, thickening the mixture and giving the topping a custard-like texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and helps the cheese melt into a smooth, pourable mixture.

The step that matters

Add the beaten eggs and cook for one minute. Egg proteins set with gentle heat and can curdle or turn grainy if overheated, so the mixture should be stirred and cooked only briefly once the eggs are added.

“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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