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Egg Sandwiches

A sandwich made with boiled eggs, butter, salt, pepper, and optional ham, spread on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Egg Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil fresh eggs for 5 minutes, then peel them.

  2. Remove a little white from each end and cut the eggs into 4 slices.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Chop the boiled eggs finely and mix with butter, salt, and pepper.

  2. Spread the mixture on buttered slices of bread and assemble the sandwiches.

  3. For variety, mix in a little chopped ham.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Butter + hamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the main filling, setting firm when boiled and holding the sandwich together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, giving the chopped egg filling a smooth, moist texture.
Bread
Provides the structure that holds the filling and carries it to the mouth.

The step that matters

Boil fresh eggs for 5 minutes, then peel them.. Boiling for the right time sets the yolks fully without overcooking them, which avoids a dry, grey-rimmed filling that is harder to chop and spread.

“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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