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Stuffed Eggs

Hard-boiled eggs filled with a mixture of beaten egg yolk and chopped cold meat, served on lettuce leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lettuce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,037 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Hard boil the eggs for 20 minutes.

  2. Remove the shells and cut the eggs lengthwise.

  3. Carefully remove the yolks and keep the whites together.

Fill and serve

  1. Mix the yolks with the chopped cold meat and season according to the type of meat used.

  2. Fill the egg whites with the mixture and put the halves together.

  3. Arrange on lettuce leaves and serve cold.

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.

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.

  1. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

  2. Meat + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,594 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Meat + lettucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together579 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + meattop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Provide the whites that hold the filling and the yolks that bind it into a smooth mixture.
Raw egg
Binds the filling together, setting slightly when mixed with the yolks.
Cold meat
Supplies the savory filling that is seasoned to suit the meat used.

The step that matters

Carefully remove the yolks and keep the whites together.. Tearing the whites makes them unable to hold the filling and halves may not rejoin neatly. Gentle handling keeps the whites intact.

Swap the lettuce

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, meat, butter. 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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