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Cheese Cups

Cheese Cups are bread rolls filled with a cheese‑milk‑egg mixture, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Cups

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the bread cups

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Cut the bread rolls in half.

  3. Scoop out the soft portion.

  4. Miter the surface.

  5. Crisp the rolls in the oven.

Make the cheese filling

  1. Melt the cheese in a saucepan.

  2. Slowly add the milk.

  3. Stir in the beaten eggs when the mixture thickens.

  4. Add salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the crisped bread cups with the cheese mixture.

  2. Serve.

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

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

  2. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  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

Bread rolls
Form the edible cups that hold the filling and crisp in the oven.
Cheese
Melts into the sauce and gives the filling its rich flavor and body.
Milk
Loosens the melted cheese into a smooth, pourable mixture.
Eggs
Thicken the warm cheese mixture as they set, giving it a custard-like texture.

The step that matters

Stir in the beaten eggs when the mixture thickens. Eggs set when heated, so adding them to a very hot mixture can scramble them. Adding them once the mixture has thickened and cooled slightly helps keep the filling smooth.

“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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