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Stuffed Eggs with Cream

A baked dish of hard‑boiled eggs filled with a creamy yolk mixture and topped with Parmesan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper 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 ↓

Stuffed Eggs with Cream

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs for 10 minutes, then remove the shells.

  2. Cut the eggs in half lengthwise and scoop out the yolks.

Make the filling

  1. In a mortar, pound the yolks with butter, soaked breadcrumbs, parsley, chives, raw egg yolks, cream, salt, pepper, and cayenne.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the stuffed eggs on a dish.

  2. Bake the stuffed eggs in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 10 minutes.

  3. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and serve immediately.

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.

Explore the science

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  5. Butter + parmesan cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the base shells and creamy yolk filling that forms the dish's body.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, giving the pounded filling a smooth, silky texture.
White breadcrumbs
Soaked in milk, they add moisture and body, keeping the filling soft and binding it.
Raw egg yolks
Add richness and emulsifying fat, helping the filling become smooth and cohesive.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, loosening the filling into a smooth, spreadable texture.
Parmesan cheese
Melts and browns in the oven, adding savoury flavour and a golden crust.

The step that matters

Bake the stuffed eggs. Baking only 10 minutes at 400°F is brief, so the topping should be watched to brown without drying the filling. The raw yolks in the filling are cooked only by this heat, so the filling should be kept warm and served immediately as instructed.

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, milk, parsley, cream, pepper, parmesan cheese):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, milk, parsley, cream, pepper, parmesan cheese. 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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