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Cheese Fates

Cheese Faits are stale bread rings filled with a cheese mixture, fried and served.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Cheese Fates

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Cut stale bread into thick rounds using a cake cutter.

  2. Use a smaller cutter to remove a piece from the center of each round, leaving a bottom.

  3. Dip the hollowed bread pieces in egg white.

  4. Coat the dipped bread pieces with breadcrumbs.

Fry and drain

  1. Fry the coated bread pieces in hot lard until golden brown.

  2. Drain excess fat from the fried bread pieces.

Make and fill

  1. Prepare the filling by boiling hot water.

  2. Stir in butter, seasoning, and cheese into the boiling water.

  3. Fill the fried bread rounds with the cheese mixture.

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.

Explore the science

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

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

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Provides a sturdy shell that holds its shape when hollowed and fried.
Egg white
Acts as a binder so the breadcrumbs stick to the bread.
Fine breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden-brown coating during frying.
Grated cheese
Adds rich flavor and melts into the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the cheese filling.

The step that matters

Frying the coated bread until golden brown. The breadcrumb coating browns and crisps quickly, and bread soaks up more fat if the frying fat is not hot enough. Draining the fried pieces removes surface fat so they stay crisp.

“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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