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Feicasseed Eggs

Sliced boiled eggs coated in flour, simmered in seasoned broth, and served on fried bread with the gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Feicasseed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Make the gravy

  1. Heat the broth in a saucepan with seasoning until it boils.

Prepare the eggs

  1. Coat the egg slices with melted butter, then roll them in flour.

  2. Gently place the coated egg slices into the hot broth, ensuring it does not boil.

  3. Let the eggs sit in the broth for 5 minutes.

Serve

  1. On a flat dish, arrange the fried bread.

  2. Place the sliced eggs evenly on the bread and pour the gravy over everything.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Parsley + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled eggs
Form the main body of the dish, giving it substance and a soft, tender texture.
Broth
Provides the liquid base of the gravy and carries the seasoning through the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the flour coating stick to the egg slices.
Flour (in the method)
Coats the egg slices and thickens the broth slightly as the eggs sit in it.

The step that matters

Keep the broth below a boil when adding the eggs. At a rolling boil the flour coating can break away and the broth can turn cloudy or lumpy, and the egg whites can toughen. Gentle heat keeps the coating intact and the texture tender.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, parsley, bread. 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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