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Tea-Cakes, to Toast

Tea cakes sliced, toasted, buttered, stacked, and served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and butter work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 703 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Tea-Cakes, to Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut each tea cake into 3 or 4 slices based on thickness.

  2. Toast the slices on both sides over a clear fire.

Finish and serve

  1. Spread butter on both sides of each toasted slice.

  2. Stack the slices on top of each other and cut into quarters.

  3. Serve immediately on a very hot plate.

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. Tea + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Tea-cakes
Provide the base bread that is sliced, toasted and served as the dish.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, softening the toasted surface and adding flavour.

The step that matters

Serve immediately on a very hot plate. Toasted slices cool and firm quickly, and butter sets as it cools. Serving hot keeps the crumb soft and the butter melted and spreadable.

“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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