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Buttered Eggs with Shrimps, Mushrooms, Truffles, Asparagus, or Tomatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and haddock match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Buttered Eggs with Shrimps, Mushrooms, Truffles, Asparagus, or Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Butter the toast and place it on a serving plate.

  3. In a saucepan, warm the picked shrimps in milk.

  4. Mix the warmed shrimps with Bechamel Sauce.

  5. Spoon the shrimp mixture into the center of each egg on the toast.

  6. Alternatively, use kippered haddock, chopped truffles, sautéed mushrooms, boiled asparagus, or pureed tomatoes.

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. Sauce + haddocktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Mushroom + asparagustop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together400 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Mushroom + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Asparagus + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together313 recipes

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

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

Swap the asparagus

The recipe marks asparagus as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, shrimp, sauce, haddock, truffle, mushroom, tomato):

  1. Asparagusthe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Chivefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, shrimp, sauce, haddock, truffle, mushroom, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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