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Fried Eggs a LA Bonwe-femme

Sliced hard‑boiled eggs are coated in beaten herbs, breadcrumbs, and fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Fried Eggs a LA Bonwe-femme

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Cut the hard-boiled eggs into slices.

  2. Season the slices with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  3. Dip each slice in the beaten eggs mixed with chopped herbs.

  4. Cover the slices with breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in clarified butter until golden brown.

  2. Drain on a cloth.

  3. Garnish with fried parsley 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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 main body of the dish, sliced and served whole in each piece.
Beaten eggs
Bind the herbs and form a coating that sets when fried.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp outer crust that browns in the hot fat.
Clarified butter
Fries the coating, adding richness and browning the crumbs evenly.

The step that matters

Fry in clarified butter until golden brown. Clarified butter has no milk solids, so it can reach frying heat without burning quickly. Frying until golden sets the egg coating and crisps the breadcrumbs while the sliced egg warms through.

“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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