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Egg-Sauce for a Salt Cod

A sauce made from chopped hard‑boiled eggs and melted butter, served hot over salt cod.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Egg-Sauce for a Salt Cod

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Chop the egg whites and yolks together, but not too finely.

  2. Heat the melted butter in a saucepan until it boils.

  3. Add the chopped eggs to the boiling butter and stir well.

Serve

  1. Serve the egg sauce hot over the cooked salt cod.

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 + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Provide the body of the sauce, with yolks and whites giving texture and richness.
Butter
Carries the chopped egg and adds richness and fat to the sauce.

The step that matters

Adding the chopped eggs to the boiling butter. Stirring the eggs into butter that is boiling but not left to scorch keeps the sauce hot and smooth. Overheating melted butter can separate its fat from the milk solids and make the sauce greasy.

“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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