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Cheese Scallop

A baked cheese dish with bread crumbs, milk, eggs, butter, and cheese, topped with beaten egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Cheese Scallop

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 ↓

Cheese Scallop

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the base

  1. Soak the dried bread crumbs in fresh milk.

  2. Beat the egg yolks and mix in the butter and grated cheese.

Bake and top

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and sprinkle sifted bread crumbs on top.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown.

  3. Whip the egg whites to stiff peaks and spread on top of the baked mixture.

  4. Return to the oven for a few minutes until the egg whites are set.

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. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cheesetop 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

Dried bread crumbs
Absorb the milk to form a soft, body-giving base for the custard.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and help it set into a tender, custardy texture.
Grated cheese
Adds rich flavor and fat, and helps the base set as it bakes.
Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks, they form a light, airy topping that sets in the oven.

The step that matters

Returning the egg whites to the oven. Whipped egg whites set with gentle heat. Baking too long or too hot can overcook them, making them dry, tough, or weepy, so watch them closely and stop once they are just set.

“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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