Skip to main content
Dessert

Cheese Biscuits

Cheese biscuits are buttered biscuits topped with grated cheese, seasoned with white pepper and optional Krona pepper, baked until melted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Cheddar cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,436 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Biscuits

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Spread the biscuits with butter.

  2. Sprinkle liberally with cheese.

  3. Season well with white pepper and add a little Krona pepper if desired.

  4. Place the biscuits in a 350°F (175°C) oven until the cheese melts.

  5. 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.

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. Cheddar cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,436 recipes

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

  2. Biscuit + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together841 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Biscuit + cheddar cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together83 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. White pepper + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Water biscuits
Provide a crisp, plain base that holds the cheese and butter.
Cheshire or cheddar cheese
Melts over the biscuits, adding richness and savory flavor.
Butter
Adds fat and richness that helps the biscuits brown lightly and carries flavor.

The step that matters

Melting the cheese in the oven. Cheese melts and turns bubbly quickly, and it can scorch or turn oily if left too long. Serving promptly keeps the biscuits crisp and the cheese soft.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (biscuit, cheddar cheese, butter, pepper):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, cheddar cheese, butter, pepper. 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.

You might also like

Baking Powder BiscuitBaking Powder Biscuit119 recipesCheese BallsCheese Balls97 recipesCheese CakeCheese Cake55 recipesCream CheeseCream Cheese46 recipes