Name: Baked Egg Plant
Ingredients: two tablespoons butter; one egg plant until tender; two table- spoons bread crumbs; one egg

Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Baked Egg Plant

Ingredients

two tablespoons butter
one egg plant until tender
two table- spoons bread crumbs
one egg

Directions

Prepare the eggplant

Parboil one eggplant until tender.
Scrape out the inside.

Make the filling

Heat two tablespoons butter and brown one-fourth of an onion chopped finely.
Mash the pulp of the eggplant and mix with two tablespoons bread crumbs, the yolk of one egg, salt, and pepper.
Fry the mixture in the butter and onion.

Bake

Replace the mixture in the eggplant, cover with cracker crumbs, and bake.
Baste often.

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
Plant	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.

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. See the original page.

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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.

Butter + breadtop 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).
Butter + eggtop 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

Eggplant (in the method): Forms the body of the dish, holding the mashed filling inside its shell.
Bread crumbs: Absorb moisture from the mashed pulp so the filling holds together.
Egg: Binds the mashed eggplant filling so it sets firmly when cooked.
Butter: Adds fat for frying, helping the filling brown and develop flavor.

“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.