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Fried Bread-crumbs

A dish of stale bread crumbs fried in butter until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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-crumbs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the stale bread through a wire sieve or colander until fine.

Fry the crumbs

  1. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the bread crumbs and stir with a wooden spoon until they turn golden brown.

  3. Spread the fried crumbs on a sieve and let them drain for 10 minutes, turning them frequently.

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. Butter + breadtop 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

Butter
Fat that coats the crumbs and carries heat, helping them fry and brown evenly with a rich flavor.
Bread
Provides the crumb base that turns crisp and golden when fried in butter.

The step that matters

Stirring the crumbs until golden brown. Crumbs can scorch quickly once the butter is hot, and the sugars and starches brown fast. Constant stirring over medium heat keeps the browning even and stops dark, bitter 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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