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Hot Cheese Relish

A fried sandwich of buttered bread with cheese, dipped in egg and milk mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Hot Cheese Relish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sandwiches

  1. Spread butter on the bread, mixing a little mustard into the butter first.

  2. Trim the crusts off the bread and sprinkle with grated cheese.

  3. Press the cheese onto the butter, place two slices together, and cut into pieces.

Make the egg coating

  1. Beat the egg with milk, salt, and pepper.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip the sandwiches into the egg mixture and soak for 2 minutes.

  2. Fry in hot oil until both sides are browned.

  3. Sprinkle a little cheese on top and serve hot.

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).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 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

Egg
Binds the milk coating and sets around the bread as it cooks.
Bread
Forms the structure and soaks up the egg mixture to fry crisp outside.
Grated cheese
Melts into the sandwich, adding richness and savoury flavour.
Milk
Thins the egg so it coats the bread and cooks to a tender texture.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour and helps the bread brown while frying.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until both sides are browned. If the oil is not hot enough, the soaked bread absorbs fat and turns greasy instead of crisping and browning. Frying over steady heat sets the egg coating and gives an even golden crust.

“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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