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Welsh Rabbit

A toasted bread sandwich with melted cheese, served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Welsh Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the toast

  1. Remove the crust from the bread and toast it until golden.

  2. Cut the toasted bread in half and spread butter on each half.

Melt and finish

  1. Toast the cheese in a Dutch oven until melted.

  2. Place the melted cheese on the buttered toast.

  3. If the cheese is not browned enough, hold a hot shovel over the top.

  4. Serve immediately while 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 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

Cheese
Melts into a creamy, savoury topping that gives the dish its body.
Bread
Provides a crisp, sturdy base that holds the melted cheese.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the toast stay soft beneath the cheese.

The step that matters

Melting the cheese. Heat that is too high or too long can make cheese grainy or oily as its proteins tighten and fat separates. Melting gently until smooth keeps the topping creamy.

“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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