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 ↓
Egg Vermicelli
Ingredients
Directions
Toast four slices of bread, boil three eggs twenty minutes, one pint of boiling milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of pepper, two table- spoonfuls of butter, two heaping tablespoon fuls of
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flour, mix all together and cook, put whites of eggs through a fruit press, mix with the other ingredients and pour over the toast, pat yolks through the press and garnish the top.
EGGS (Baked). Beat the whites of six eggs until stiff and dry, form them into a mound on a platter, make six little nests in the mound, drop the yolks into them without breaking. Put salt, pepper and butter on each. Then brown over in a very hot oven. Cooking School.
EGGS (Deviled)— No. 1. Boil hard six eggs, remove the shells and halve each egg, slipping the yolks into a bowl. Prepare a dressing for them as follows: Two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, two of vinegar, one of sugar, one small tea.spoonful of French mustard, salt and pepper, add the yolks, rub all together until free from lumps, make into balls and replace in the whites, cut off the end of the egg so that it will stand upon the platter ; garnish with parsley. Mrs. H. Darland,
Newark, N. Y.
EGGS (Deviled)— No. 2. Boil twelve eggs fifteen minutes, cut lengthwise, take out yolks and mash them, add to them one tablespoonful of olive oil or butter, one teaspoonful of French mustard, two heaping tablespoonfuls of finely chopped ham ; salt and pepper to taste. Rub all together. Fill the whites with this mixture, and serve for tea or lunch.
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EGGS (Boiled "to the Queen's Taste"). Have the water boiling, put in the eggs and set the kettle on the back of the stove for five minutes.
Dr. Chakles A. Hayes.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Ham | 100g cooked | 145 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Mustard | 1 tsp (5g) yellow | 3 |
| Vinegar | 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled | 3 |
| Parsley | 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) | 1 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Tea | 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.
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.
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Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Olive + mustardtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,950 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together15,430 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,091 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, pepper, butter, olive, egg, flour):
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Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, pepper, butter, olive, egg, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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