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Milk Toast

Milk Toast is a simple dish of toasted bread soaked in boiled milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Milk Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the toast

  1. Cut stale baker's bread into thin slices.

  2. Toast the bread until golden brown.

  3. Place the toasted bread in a deep dish.

Heat the milk and serve

  1. In a lined saucepan, add a little cold water and boil the milk.

  2. Once the milk boils, pour it over the toast.

  3. Cover and 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 + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale baker's bread
Provides the base structure that soaks up the hot milk and becomes soft.
New milk
Supplies the moisture and creamy liquid that softens the toast.

The step that matters

Boiling the milk in a lined saucepan. Milk sugars and proteins scorch easily on hot metal and can boil over. A little cold water in the pan and a lined saucepan help prevent sticking and burning at the bottom.

“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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