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Egg Patties

Egg patties are a savory dish made from beaten eggs, crumbled roll, milk, parsley, pepper, salt, and spices, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Egg Patties

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the filling

  1. Crush the yolks and mince the whites of the eggs.

  2. Mix the yolks and whites with the soaked roll crumbs, milk or cream, parsley, pepper, salt, and spices until smooth.

  3. If the mixture is too thick, dilute it with more cream.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill tartlet shells or patties made of puff pastry with the mixture.

  2. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) until golden.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  3. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  4. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Milk + parsleytop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,011 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when baked, giving the filling its body and firm texture.
Roll crumbs
Soaked bread absorbs liquid and helps thicken the filling while keeping it moist.
Milk or cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling smooth and tender as it bakes.
Parsley
Adds fresh, herbal aroma and flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Mixing to a smooth, correct consistency. Egg proteins set with heat, so a filling that is too thick or unevenly mixed can bake dense or lumpy. Thinning with cream and mixing until smooth gives an even, tender set.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk, pepper):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Cinnamonfits about as well
  4. Dillfits about as well

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

“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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