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Egg Eolls

Egg rolls are thin pancakes made from eggs, milk, flour, and salt, cooked on a griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Egg Eolls

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Beat the eggs well in a bowl.

  2. Add the milk and salt, then mix in the flour until smooth.

Cook and roll

  1. Grease a griddle and pour a thin layer of the mixture onto it.

  2. Cook until browned on one side, then cut into lengths.

  3. Roll each piece up on the griddle.

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. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide structure, so the thin batter sets into a sheet that holds together.
Flour
Thickens the liquid batter so it cooks into a firm, flexible sheet.
Milk
Thins the batter and adds moisture, keeping the cooked sheets tender.

The step that matters

Pour a thin layer of batter onto the griddle. A thin layer sets quickly and evenly, so it can be browned on one side and rolled without tearing. A thick layer stays soft in the middle and cracks when rolled.

“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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