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Toasted Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cheese and butter, toasted until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Toasted Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Soften the butter in a bowl.

  2. Mix in the cheese and paprika until well combined.

  3. Spread the cheese mixture thickly on thinly sliced bread.

Toast and serve

  1. Place two slices together and toast over medium heat until golden.

  2. Serve hot with a salad, preferably made of tomato or lettuce.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 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

Butter
Softened fat that blends with the cheese and helps the filling spread smoothly.
Chopped cheese
Provides the melting, savory filling that binds the sandwich together.
Bread
Forms the structure that holds the filling and browns when toasted.

The step that matters

Toasting over medium heat until golden. Medium heat lets the bread brown through and the cheese melt before the outside burns. High heat can scorch the surface while the filling stays cold 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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