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A boiled egg served atop sautéed spinach.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and spinach are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,323 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Egg

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Boil the egg for 10 minutes, then cool and peel it.

Cook and serve

  1. Chop the spinach and sauté it in a pan until wilted.

  2. Serve the egg sliced on top of the spinach.

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. Egg + spinachtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,323 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Provides protein-rich body and a firm, sliceable texture when boiled and set.
Spinach
Wilts down in the pan to add a tender, soft texture and a mild green flavor.

The step that matters

Boil the egg for 10 minutes, then cool and peel it.. Boiling time controls how firm the yolk sets; too short leaves it runny and too long can leave a grey-green ring around the yolk. Cooling promptly stops the cooking and makes peeling easier.

“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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