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Egg Curry with Green Peas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,648 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Egg Curry with Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the English peas until tender.

  2. Prepare the curry sauce according to your preferred recipe.

  3. Add the cooked peas to the curry sauce.

  4. Cut the hard-boiled eggs in half and gently place them in the curry.

  5. Stir in coconut milk for added flavor.

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. Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

  2. Peas + coconuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Peas + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,309 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Peas + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

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

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sauce, coconut, milk):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Peanutfits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sauce, coconut, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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