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Cheese Canapes I

Cheese Canapés are toasted bread topped with grated cheese, seasoned with sea salt and cayenne pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Canapes I

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Toast the circular pieces of bread.

Top and bake

  1. Sprinkle a thick layer of grated cheese on top.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and cayenne pepper.

  3. Place on a baking sheet and bake until the cheese is melted.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately.

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

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

  2. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. 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

Grated cheese
Melts into a molten, savoury layer that carries the flavour of the canapé.
Circular pieces of bread
Provides a crisp, toasted base that holds the cheese topping.

The step that matters

Bake until the cheese is melted. Cheese needs enough heat to melt fully and turn smooth; underbaking leaves it stiff and cold, while overbaking can make it oily or burn at the edges.

“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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