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Cream Toast

A toast topped with a creamy mixture of milk, flour, and coconut butter.

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

Cream Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cream

  1. Blend the flour with enough cold milk to form a smooth paste.

  2. Add the paste to the boiling milk and stir constantly until smooth and creamy.

  3. Add salt and coconut butter, mixing well.

Toast and serve

  1. Toast the slices of white bread until golden brown.

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

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Coconut + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

White flour
Starch thickens the hot milk into a smooth, creamy sauce as it heats.
Boiling milk
Forms the liquid base that the thickened cream is built on.
Coconut butter
Adds fat for richness and a softer, smoother mouthfeel.
White bread
Provides the toasted base that the cream is served over.

The step that matters

Adding the flour paste to the boiling milk. Starch granules clump easily when they meet hot liquid. Stirring constantly disperses the paste evenly, so the cream thickens smoothly without lumps or scorching on the bottom of the pan.

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, flour, butter, bread):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, flour, butter, 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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