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Kggs with Asparagus

A quick egg scramble with cooked asparagus served over toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and peas match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Kggs with Asparagus

Ingredients

Directions

Make the eggs

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat them well.

  2. Add the pepper, salt, and asparagus to the eggs.

  3. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.

  4. Pour the egg mixture into the saucepan and stir constantly until thickened.

Serve

  1. Serve the egg and asparagus mixture over the toast immediately.

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. Asparagus + peastop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together808 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,968 recipes

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

  3. Peas + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,331 recipes

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

  4. Peas + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Egg + asparagustop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,338 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
Set when heated, forming the soft, thickened body of the dish.
Asparagus
Adds texture and a green vegetable element to the eggs.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the eggs cook smoothly without sticking.

The step that matters

Stirring the eggs constantly until thickened. Eggs set from the proteins coagulating under heat. Stirring keeps the curds small and even, and removing the pan from heat early avoids overcooking, which makes eggs dry and rubbery.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, asparagus, butter, pepper):

  1. Beansfits about as well
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Walnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, asparagus, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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