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Welsh Toasted Cheese

A toasted slice of Welsh cheese served on toasted bread, optionally buttered.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Welsh Toasted Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast the slice of Welsh cheese on both sides until warm but not dripping.

  2. Toast the bread until it is crisp.

  3. Spread a thin layer of fresh cold butter on one side of the toast, if desired.

  4. Place the toasted cheese on the buttered toast and serve immediately on a hot plate.

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).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + milktop 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

Welsh cheese
Melts into a warm, creamy layer that forms the main body of the toast.
Bread
Provides a crisp base that holds the melted cheese without going soggy.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth fat layer that helps the toast brown and taste savoury.

The step that matters

Toasting the cheese until warm but not dripping. Cheese that is heated too far loses its shape and runs off the bread. Warming it gently until soft keeps it sitting in place on the toast.

“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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