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Fried Bread with Cottage Cheese

Fried bread slices topped with cottage cheese, optionally mixed with pimientos, nuts, or marmalade, then dipped in egg and milk and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Fried Bread with Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Spread cottage cheese thickly on slices of stale bread, mixing in pimientos, nut meats, or marmalade/jelly if desired.

  2. Whisk together the egg and milk in a bowl.

  3. Dip the prepared bread slices in the egg and milk mixture.

Fry

  1. Fry the bread quickly in butter or other fat until golden brown.

  2. For a variation, omit the egg and milk and fry the bread lightly in a small amount of bacon fat.

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. Cottage cheese + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Cottage cheese + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Provides the base structure that holds the cheese and absorbs the egg and milk coating.
Cottage cheese
Forms the moist, creamy filling spread over the bread.
Egg
Binds the milk coating so it sets and helps the surface brown when fried.
Milk
Thins the egg into a dipping coating that soaks into the bread for a tender interior.

The step that matters

Fry the bread quickly in butter or other fat until golden brown. Frying over high enough heat sets the egg and milk coating and browns the surface before the soaked bread becomes greasy or soggy inside.

“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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