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Egg Vermicelli

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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 ↓

Egg Vermicelli

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 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

  2. THE GOOD CHEEK COOK-BOOK. 37

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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,

  6. Newark, N. Y.

  7. 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.

  8. 38 THE GOOD CHEEK COOK BOOK.

  9. 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.

  10. Dr. Chakles A. Hayes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1061Calories
49 gProtein
45 gFat
111 gCarbs

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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Ham100g cooked145
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Teanot in our table0

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

By Chippewa Falls, Wis. Episcopal church. Ladies aid society. [from old catalog]. 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.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Olive + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, pepper, butter, olive, egg, flour):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Mustardthe original

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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