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A simple egg and flour dough made into thin noodles for soup or vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Noodles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, mix the eggs, water, and salt.

  2. Gradually add flour until a stiff dough forms.

  3. Knead the dough for 15-20 minutes until smooth and elastic.

Shape and dry

  1. Roll out small pieces of dough as thin as a wafer, sprinkling with flour as needed.

  2. Roll the thin sheet into a tight roll and cut into threads for soup or ribbons for a vegetable.

  3. Let the noodles dry for at least an hour.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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 and richness, setting the noodles firm when cooked.
Flour
Builds the gluten network that gives the dough its stretch and chew.
Water
Hydrates the flour so it forms a workable, cohesive dough.

The step that matters

Kneading the dough. Kneading aligns and develops gluten, giving the dough elasticity so it can be rolled thin without tearing and holds its shape in the cooked noodles.

“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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