Boiled Egg & Soldiers

Name: Boiled Egg & Soldiers
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: . small saucepan; . big spoon; . kitchen timer or clock; . knife; . toaster (or grill); . slottes spoon; . egg cups; . teaspoons; . 2 eggs*; . 2 slices of wholemeal bread; . butter for your toast; . Marmite (only if you like it!; . Store eggs in the fridge, but take them out a while before you boil them so they warm up. This helps stop the shells cracking when they're put into hot water.

When I was growing up, my mum could not afford chocolate eggs for all five of us, but we all had two boiled eggs each on Easter morning and we loved them. We each removed the tops of the eggs in our own way, and the eggshells got everywhere!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients

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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Boiled Egg & Soldiers

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

635Calories

19 gProtein

18 gFat

96 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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