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Toasted Cheese

A cheese mixture baked over buttered toast until golden and bubbly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Toasted Cheese

Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Toasted Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cheese mixture

  1. Melt the cheese slowly in a saucepan.

  2. Add the cream, egg yolk, and Cayenne pepper, then stir until smooth.

Toast and serve

  1. Spread the mixture over small pieces of buttered toast cut in squares or circles.

  2. Place under a broiler until golden and bubbly.

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

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

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

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

  3. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese
Melts into the rich, smooth base that forms the topping.
Cream
Adds moisture and loosens the cheese into a spreadable mixture.
Egg yolk
Thickens the mixture as it heats and helps it hold together.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the toast brown under the broiler.

The step that matters

Melt the cheese slowly in a saucepan.. High heat can make cheese seize, turn grainy, or separate into oil. Gentle heat lets the proteins melt evenly, giving a smooth mixture before the egg yolk is added.

“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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