Name: Eggs Stuffed with Caviar
Ingredients: hard boiled eggs; Russian caviar; buttered brown bread; watercress

Why it works: Egg and caviar work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 101 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Eggs Stuffed with Caviar

Ingredients

hard boiled eggs
Russian caviar
buttered brown bread
watercress

Directions

Slice the hard boiled eggs in half and remove the yolks.
Fill the egg whites with Russian caviar.
Serve the stuffed eggs on thin slices of buttered brown bread.
Garnish with watercress.

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.

Egg + caviartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + watercresstop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together307 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Caviar + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together65 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Egg + watercresstop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together638 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).