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Baked Eggs with Cheese

Eggs baked with cheese, butter, salt, and paprika in ramekins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By New Orleans Federation of Clubs · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Eggs with Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Butter 6 ramekins.

  2. Drop a whole egg into each ramekin.

  3. Add salt and paprika.

  4. Add a teaspoon of butter.

  5. Cover each ramekin with a tablespoon of grated cheese.

Bake

  1. Place the ramekins in a pan of hot water, about 1 inch deep.

  2. Bake until the eggs are set.

Brown and serve

  1. Place under a flame and brown quickly.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

293Calories
13 gProtein
26 gFat
1 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By New Orleans Federation of Clubs. 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.

Explore the science

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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Cheese + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,253 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when heated to form the firm, tender body of the dish.
Grated cheese
Melts over the eggs, adding savory flavor and browning under the flame.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps keep the eggs from sticking to the ramekins.

The step that matters

Bake until the eggs are set. Egg proteins set at moderate heat. Overbaking makes the whites rubbery and the yolks dry and chalky, so check for a set white while the yolk still looks soft.

“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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