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Toasted Cheese

A toasted bread topped with a warm cheese mixture made from grated cheese, sweet cream, egg yolk, butter, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Toasted Cheese

Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Toasted Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cheese mixture

  1. Melt the grated cheese gradually in the sweet cream over low heat until hot.

  2. Remove from heat and stir in the egg yolk, butter, and pepper.

Prepare and serve

  1. Toast the bread slices and butter them.

  2. Place the buttered toast on a platter over a dish of hot water.

  3. Spread the cheese mixture over the toast and serve immediately.

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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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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Grated cheese
Melts into a smooth sauce that gives the toast its body and flavour.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and helps the cheese melt into a smooth, pourable mixture.
Egg yolk
Thickens the cheese mixture as it heats and gives it a richer texture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the mixture and the toast.

The step that matters

Melt the cheese gradually over low heat. Cheese is rich in protein and fat, so high heat makes it tighten, separate and turn grainy. Gentle, gradual heating keeps the sauce smooth. Adding the egg yolk after removing it from the heat also helps prevent it from scrambling.

“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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