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Caviare Toast

Caviare Toast is a warm caviar spread on buttered toast, finished with lemon juice and cayenne pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Caviare Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the caviare

  1. Warm the caviare in the oven.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the warmed caviare on hot buttered toast.

  2. Cut the toast into squares or small oblongs.

  3. Make the surface of the caviare smooth.

  4. Sprinkle a few drops of lemon juice over the caviare.

  5. Dust the caviare with cayenne pepper for a deviled version.

  6. Put the toast in the oven for a minute or less.

  7. Serve very 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.

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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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Caviare
Supplies the salty, briny flavour that is the centre of the dish.
Buttered toast
Provides a crisp base that holds the warm caviare and adds fat and browning.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, salty caviare.

The step that matters

Warm the caviare gently. Caviare is delicate; too much heat cooks the roe proteins, firming and dulling the eggs and driving off their fresh, briny flavour. Warm it only enough to take the chill off before spreading.

“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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