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Fried Bread to Serve with Soup

Fried bread made from stale bread and butter, cooked until light brown.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Fried Bread to Serve with Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut stale bread into slices nearly ½ inch thick, then cut into squares or shapes.

Fry and drain

  1. Melt butter in a frying pan.

  2. Add the bread and fry, turning constantly, until light brown.

  3. Drain excess butter and dry on a cloth or paper before the fire.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Its drier crumb crisps and browns in the hot fat instead of turning soggy.
Butter
Conducts heat for even frying, browns the surface and adds rich flavor.

The step that matters

Fry, turning constantly, until light brown. Butter's milk solids darken quickly once the pan is hot. Constant turning spreads heat evenly so the bread browns uniformly without scorching in spots.

“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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