Why it works: Egg and watercress work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 638 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓
Fifty Lunches
Ingredients
Directions
Chop the hard-boiled egg and anchovies into small pieces.
Fill the cases with the chopped mixture.
Dust grated Parmesan over the filled cases.
Serve on a flat dish garnished with watercress or salad greens.
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.
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Egg + watercresstop 20% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together638 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
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