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Stuffed Eggs

Hard‑boiled eggs filled with a seasoned yolk mixture and optional meat, then optionally fried or served cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the eggs hard and remove the shells.

  2. Cut the eggs in half and remove the yolks.

  3. Mix the yolks with pepper, salt, mustard, and optional meat.

Assemble

  1. Stuff the egg whites with the yolk mixture and smooth them.

  2. Put the halves back together.

  3. Wrap the halves in tissue paper for picnics.

  4. For home use, dip in beaten egg, coat with breadcrumbs, and fry in boiling oil until browned.

  5. Drain and garnish with parsley.

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.

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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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Mustard + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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

  4. Mustard + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Pepper + chickentop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whites provide the structure that holds the filling, and the cooked yolks make the rich filling.
Dry mustard
Adds a sharp, pungent flavour that balances the richness of the yolks.
Cold chicken, ham, or tongue
Adds savoury meat flavour and a little extra body to the yolk filling.

The step that matters

Fry in boiling oil until browned. For home use, the coated eggs must be fried in hot oil long enough to brown the breadcrumb coating. Oil that is not hot enough lets the coating absorb grease and turn soggy, while the filling inside is already cooked.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, chicken, parsley):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, chicken, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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