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To Make Egg Sauce

A sauce made by boiling eggs, mixing chopped whites with yolks, and combining with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 118,967 recipes mention both. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

To Make Egg Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs for 10 minutes.

  2. Chop half of the egg whites and combine them with the yolks, chopping them together but not too finely.

Make the sauce

  1. Mix the chopped eggs into the melted butter and serve in a sauce boat.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the chopped body of the sauce, giving it texture and substance.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, coating the chopped egg to create a smooth, creamy sauce.

The step that matters

Chopping the eggs together, not too finely. Chopping the whites and yolks together keeps the pieces coarse enough to give the sauce texture. Chopping too finely turns the egg into a paste, which blends into the butter and loses the distinct, chunky character of the sauce.

“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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