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Creamed Eggs

Creamed Eggs are hard‑boiled eggs topped with a butter, flour, and stock sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Creamed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Hard-boil the eggs.

  2. Cut the eggs in half.

Make the sauce

  1. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the flour to the melted butter, stirring constantly to prevent burning.

  3. Gradually pour in the chicken stock, stirring until the mixture is smooth.

  4. Season with salt and pepper if necessary.

Serve

  1. Pour the sauce over the eggs and serve hot.

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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Form the main body of the dish, providing protein and substance under the sauce.
Butter
Provides fat and flavour, and forms the base of the roux with the flour.
Flour
Thickens the butter and stock into a smooth, coating sauce.
Chicken or turkey stock
Forms the liquid of the sauce and adds savoury flavour.

The step that matters

Stirring the flour into the melted butter. Constant stirring keeps the flour evenly dispersed so it cooks without scorching. Adding stock gradually and stirring until smooth prevents lumps, because starch granules clump when liquid meets them unevenly.

“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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