Why it works: Spinach and egg 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 ↓
Eggs and Spinach
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the spinach until tender.
Place the spinach in a serving dish.
Top with poached eggs or halved hard-boiled eggs.
Press the halves of the hard-boiled eggs into the spinach to make them stand upright.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Spinach + eggtop 22% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,323 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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