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Cheese Scrambled Eggs

Scrambled eggs with grated cream cheese, cooked in butter and served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,747 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Cheese Scrambled Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Lightly beat the eggs and add the water.

  2. Heat the butter in a hot frying pan.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the egg mixture to the pan and scatter the cheese on top.

  2. Gently toss until the eggs are cooked but still soft.

  3. Serve on buttered toast.

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. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + cream cheesetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,549 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into soft curds that give the scrambled eggs their body.
Cream cheese
Melts into the eggs, adding richness and a creamy texture.
Butter
Adds fat for flavour and keeps the eggs from sticking to the pan.
Water
Adds moisture so the eggs stay tender rather than dry.

The step that matters

Gently toss until the eggs are cooked but still soft. Egg proteins tighten as they heat, so over-cooking squeezes out moisture and leaves rubbery, dry curds. Removing them while still soft lets residual heat finish the set.

“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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