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Hard-boiled Eggs Stuffed with Salpicon

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Hard-boiled Eggs Stuffed with Salpicon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread firm jelly mixed with puree of foie gras on a baking sheet to ½ inch thick and let cool.

  2. Use a pastry cutter to cut out 2-inch rounds from the jelly, then cut out the center with a 1¼-inch cutter.

  3. Place the jelly rings in small crimped paper cases.

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

  5. Refill the egg halves with a mixture of chicken, truffles, tongue, mushrooms, and jellied mayonnaise.

  6. Sprinkle chopped parsley on top and place the eggs on the jelly rings.

  7. Cover lightly with jelly.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

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

  5. Egg + truffletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,604 recipes

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

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, chicken, truffle, mushroom):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, chicken, truffle, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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