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Scrambled Eggs Rothschild

Scrambled eggs mixed with crayfish, thick cream, sea salt, and served with asparagus and truffles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and truffle work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 141 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Scrambled Eggs Rothschild

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the crayfish cream

  1. Remove the tails from the crayfish and set them aside.

  2. Finely pound the remaining crayfish and gradually mix in the thick cream.

  3. Rub the mixture through a sieve.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the crayfish cream to the beaten eggs and season.

  2. Cook on moderate heat until smooth and creamy.

  3. Serve in a timbale, garnished with asparagus heads, crayfish tails, and slices of truffles.

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. Asparagus + truffletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Crayfish + truffletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Crayfish + asparagustop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  4. Egg + asparagustop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,338 recipes

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

  5. Crayfish + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together86 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a soft, creamy structure as they cook, forming the body of the dish.
Crayfish
Provides the main flavour and, once pounded and sieved, colours and seasons the egg base.
Thick cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the scramble a smoother, silkier texture.
Truffles
Add a deep, earthy aroma as a finishing garnish.

The step that matters

Cook on moderate heat until smooth and creamy. Egg proteins set quickly and turn grainy or curdled if overheated. Gentle heat and constant attention keep the eggs tender and creamy.

“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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