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Kayleigh Toast

A toast topped with a savory mixture of rabbit, ham, tongue, egg, onion, herbs, coconut, curry paste, sherry, and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Kayleigh Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Chop the onion and fry it until brown.

  2. Add mixed herbs, salt, pepper, grated coconut, curry paste, sherry, and gravy.

  3. Stir, boil, and continue stirring.

  4. Add more gravy as needed.

  5. Wait until the mixture drops easily from a spoon.

Finish and serve

  1. Incorporate the chopped hard-boiled egg and the meats into the mixture.

  2. Reheat.

  3. Serve the mixture on fried bread cut into triangles.

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. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + coconuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,831 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Rabbit + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Rabbit + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together273 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit
Provides the main meaty flavor and bulk of the filling.
Ham
Adds salty, savory depth that carries the curry seasoning.
Tongue
Contributes rich, tender meat texture to the filling.
Onion
Browning builds sweet, savory flavor as the base of the mixture.
Gravy or stock
Supplies moisture and savory body, thinned in as the mixture cooks.
Egg
Adds richness and body to the mixture once chopped and stirred in.

The step that matters

Wait until the mixture drops easily from a spoon.. As liquid reduces, the mixture thickens. Too thin and it will soak into the bread; too dry and it will not spread or hold together on the toast.

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, ham, egg, onion, pepper, sherry, bread):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, ham, egg, onion, pepper, sherry, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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