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Devonshire Toast

Devonshire toast is fried bread croutons topped with bloater paste, clotted or whipped cream, shredded bloater, and minced olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Devonshire Toast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fry the square croutons of bread in butter until golden.

  2. Spread a thin layer of bloater paste on each crouton.

  3. Top with clotted cream or whipped cream.

  4. Garnish with finely-shredded bloater and minced olives.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Butter + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Bread + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread croutons
Provide a crisp, golden base that holds the toppings.
Butter
Browns the bread and adds rich flavor during frying.
Bloater paste
Gives a concentrated, savory smoked-fish flavor to each crouton.
Clotted cream or whipped cream
Adds a smooth, rich layer that softens the savory topping.

The step that matters

Frying the croutons until golden. Frying in butter until golden browns the bread through the Maillard reaction, giving flavor and a crisp surface that holds the spread without going soggy.

“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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