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Egg and Cheese Toast Sandwiches

A toasted bread sandwich with cheese, poached egg, and hot milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Egg and Cheese Toast Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the toast

  1. Lightly toast the slices of bread.

  2. Butter the toasted slices.

Assemble and bake

  1. Place thin slices of cheese on top.

  2. Return to the oven until the cheese melts.

  3. Press a slice of toast on top of each cheese slice.

Poach and serve

  1. Poach the eggs.

  2. Season the poached eggs with salt and pepper.

  3. Place the sandwiches on plates.

  4. Top each sandwich with a poached egg.

  5. Pour hot milk, seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter, over each sandwich.

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. Butter + milktop 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. Cheese + milktop 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

Bread
Provides the crisp toasted base and structure that holds the cheese and egg.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the toast brown and taste savory.
Cheese
Melts into a gooey layer that binds the toast slices together.
Eggs
Set when poached to give a soft, runny yolk that adds richness and moisture.
Hot milk
Adds moisture and softens the bread as it is poured over the sandwiches.

The step that matters

Poach the eggs. Eggs poached in gently simmering water set around a runny yolk. Boiling water can tear the whites apart, and overcooking firms the yolk, so the yolk loses its creamy 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.

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