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Stuffed Eggs

Hard-boiled eggs filled with a butter, vinegar, sugar, and pepper yolk mixture, topped with grated crackers and baked until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,814 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cut the hard-boiled eggs in half and remove the yolks.

  2. In a bowl, mix the yolks with vinegar, butter, sugar, black pepper, red pepper, and salt.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the egg white halves with the yolk mixture.

  2. Grate crackers over the top of the filled eggs.

  3. Place in a 400°F (200°C) oven to brown.

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. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg whites form the edible shell, and the yolks provide the rich, creamy filling.
Butter
Adds fat to the yolk mixture, making the filling smooth and rich.
Vinegar
Adds a sharp acidity that brightens the rich yolk filling.
Crackers
Crushed crackers on top brown in the oven, adding a crisp, toasted layer.

The step that matters

Browning the crackers in the oven. Crackers can burn quickly at high heat, while too little time leaves them pale and soft. Watching the topping closely lets the surface toast evenly, since browning depends on the sugars and starches reacting with heat.

“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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