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To Make Hot Buttered Toast

A simple dish of toasted bread slices spread with butter while hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

To Make Hot Buttered Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut even slices from the loaf, about ½ inch thick.

  2. Toast the slices over a bright fire until golden brown.

Butter and serve

  1. Spread butter on one side of each slice while hot.

  2. Serve immediately to enjoy the best flavor.

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 + buttertop 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

Bread
Provides the base that toasts to a golden, crisp surface while its interior stays soft.
Butter
Adds fat and flavor, and melts into the warm, porous toast for richness.

The step that matters

Spread the butter while the toast is hot. Heat melts the butter so it soaks into the open crumb of the toast. Cold toast holds the butter on the surface, and it sets firmer and spreads less evenly.

“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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