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Dry Toast

Dry toast is slices of bread lightly buttered and toasted over a clear, hot fire.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Dry Toast

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 ↓

Dry Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the bread into slices 1-3 inches thick.

Toast and serve

  1. Hold the slices over a clear, hot fire, turning occasionally until they are a pale brown.

  2. Spread lightly with butter and serve immediately.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

2-day-old bread
Its slightly dried surface toasts crisply and holds its shape over the heat.
Butter
Adds richness and a soft, melting finish to the toasted surface.

The step that matters

Turning the slices over a hot fire. Heat that is too strong or uneven scorches the outside before the inside dries, so turning often and keeping the pale brown colour matters for an even result.

“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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