Name: Soft Cheese on Toast
Ingredients: 1 pint cream; 1 cup grated cheese; slices of toast

Why it works: Cream and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,655 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Soft Cheese on Toast

Ingredients

1 pint cream
1 cup grated cheese
slices of toast

Directions

Make the sauce

Make a pint of cream sauce.
Stir in 1 cup of grated cheese until it melts.

Serve

Remove from heat and pour over thin slices of toast.

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.

Cream + cheesetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Cream: Forms the smooth base of the sauce that carries the cheese.
Grated cheese: Melts into the cream to add rich flavour and a creamy, coating texture.

“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.