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Stuffed Eggs

Stuffed eggs are hard‑boiled eggs filled with a yolk mixture and coated in crumbs before frying.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

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

  2. Mash the yolks with butter, cream, lemon juice, salt, and pepper until smooth.

  3. Fill the egg whites with the yolk mixture and put the halves back together.

Coat and fry

  1. Beat the additional egg and coat the stuffed eggs with it.

  2. Roll the coated eggs in cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry in boiling fat until golden brown.

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 + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

Egg and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 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
Egg whites hold the yolk filling, and the beaten egg binds the cracker crumb coating.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, moist texture to the mashed yolks.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.
Cream
Adds moisture so the yolk mixture mashes into a smooth filling.

The step that matters

Fry in boiling fat until golden brown. The coating must be fully set and browned before the egg is hot through; the crumbs brown quickly, so the fat must be hot enough to crisp the crust without burning it. Coated eggs can also split or leak filling if they are handled roughly or the coating is not sealed.

“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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