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Stuffed Eggs

A dish of hard‑boiled eggs filled with a mixture of meats, mustard, lemon juice, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the hard-boiled eggs in half and remove the yolks.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, mash the yolks and mix in the minced ham, tongue, chicken, and any optional ingredients.

  2. Add mustard, lemon juice, parsley, and seasoning herbs to the mixture.

Serve

  1. Fill the egg whites with the mixture and serve.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Mustard + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Mustard + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,816 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Chicken + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Yolks are mashed into the filling and whites hold it for serving.
Minced ham
Adds savory, meaty flavor to the yolk filling.
Minced tongue
Adds rich, savory meat flavor and a tender texture to the filling.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich yolk mixture.
Mustard
Adds sharp, pungent flavor that cuts the richness of the yolks.

Swap the mustard

The recipe marks mustard as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, ham, chicken, lemon, cheese, parsley):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Mustardthe original
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, ham, chicken, lemon, cheese, parsley. 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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