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Egg Curry with Green Peas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and peas match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,946 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: egg (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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.

  1. Egg + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,946 recipes

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

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