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Fried Egg Sandwiches

A sandwich made with mashed hard-boiled eggs, butter, cream, and spices, then fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Fried Egg Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Peel and slice the hard-boiled eggs.

  2. In a bowl, mash the eggs with butter and cream until smooth.

  3. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and cayenne.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Slice the French rolls thinly and butter each slice.

  2. Spread the egg mixture on half of the slices and top with the remaining slices to form sandwiches.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip each sandwich in prepared frying batter.

  2. Fry the sandwiches in hot oil until golden brown.

  3. Drain on paper towels 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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  4. Cream + peppertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 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

Hard-boiled eggs
Form the creamy, mashable base of the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the egg filling and helps the rolls brown.
Cream
Loosens the mashed egg so the filling spreads smoothly and stays moist.
French rolls
Hold the filling and crisp up in the hot oil to form the sandwich's outer shell.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Oil that is hot enough sets and browns the outside quickly, forming a crisp layer that limits how much oil the bread absorbs. If the oil is too cool, the sandwich soaks up grease and turns soggy before the surface browns.

“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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