Why it works: Lime and cream work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and 740 recipes mention both. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓
Pickled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Make a brine solution with water, coarse sea salt, and lime.
Ensure the solution is strong enough so an egg will sink but remain covered.
For every barrel of this solution, add 1 to 2 pails of water.
If desired, add cream of tartar to the mixture.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Lime + creamtop 31% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together740 recipes
Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
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