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Dutch Toast

A dish of minced poultry or meat mixed with vegetables, eggs, and gravy, served on toast with lemon juice and white pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and white pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,658 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Dutch Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine minced cold poultry or meat with chopped cold dressed vegetables.

  2. Add one or more eggs and mix well.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat the mixture in a little gravy until hot.

  2. Prepare a square of toast and place the hot mixture on top.

  3. Squeeze a little lemon juice over the dish and sprinkle with white pepper.

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 + white peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,658 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Egg + white peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Meat + lemontop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,817 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Egg and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the minced mixture together and help it set when heated.
Gravy
Adds moisture and savoury flavour while heating the mixture through.
Cold poultry or meat
Provides the main protein and substance of the filling.
Cold dressed vegetables
Add bulk and moisture to the minced filling.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, egg, lemon):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, egg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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