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Delicious Scalloped Cheese

A baked cheese dish with bread crumbs, milk, eggs, cheese, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Delicious Scalloped Cheese

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

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in sweet milk until soft.

  2. Beat the eggs until light.

  3. Mix the beaten eggs with the soaked bread crumbs.

Make the custard

  1. Add the grated cheese and mix well.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish.

  2. Dot the surface with butter.

  3. Bake at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown and 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. Cheese + buttertop 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

Eggs
Set the mixture into a firm, sliceable custard when baked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the milk and give the dish body and a soft, tender structure.
Sweet milk
Provides the liquid that moistens the crumbs and forms the custard base.
Grated cheese
Adds rich flavor and fat, and melts into the custard for savory taste.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the surface brown as it bakes.

The step that matters

Bake until golden brown and set. Pull the dish once the centre is just firm and the top is golden. Overbaking makes eggs curdle and turn grainy and dry, while underbaking leaves the custard runny.

“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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