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Breaded Eggs

Breaded eggs are boiled eggs coated in beaten egg and bread crumbs, then fried and served with bisque sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Breaded Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil four eggs for ten minutes, then transfer to cold water and remove the shells.

  2. Cut the eggs in half lengthwise and season with salt and pepper.

Coat the eggs

  1. Beat the uncooked egg in a bowl.

  2. Dip the egg halves in the beaten egg, then roll in the bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. At serving time, heat the fat in a frying basket and plunge in the breaded eggs.

  2. Cook for about two minutes, then drain and serve on a hot dish with bisque sauce poured around.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Bread + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pepper + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Pepper and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,303 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
The hard-boiled halves provide the body, and the beaten raw egg binds the crumb coating.
Dried bread crumbs
They form the outer coating that crisps and browns in the hot fat.
Fat for frying
Hot fat transfers heat quickly, crisping and browning the breaded coating.
Bisque sauce
Served around the eggs, it adds moisture and a rich flavour to each bite.

The step that matters

Frying at serving time. The fat must be hot when the breaded eggs go in. Hot fat seals the coating quickly so it crisps rather than soaking up oil, and a short cook keeps the eggs from overheating.

“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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