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Macaroni with Bread Crumbs

A simple macaroni dish topped with breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Macaroni with Bread Crumbs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the macaroni.

Cook

  1. Simmer the macaroni in half milk and half broth with a little salt until tender.

  2. Remove the macaroni from the liquid and place it on a dish.

Serve

  1. Top with breadcrumbs.

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 + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the body of the dish and softens as it absorbs the simmering liquid.
Milk
Adds creaminess and richness as part of the simmering liquid.
Broth
Adds savory flavor as it is absorbed during simmering.
Bread crumbs
Adds a contrasting texture to the soft macaroni on top.

The step that matters

Simmer until tender. Pasta keeps softening from residual heat after it leaves the pot, so removing it once it is just tender helps prevent it from becoming mushy.

“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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