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Esoalopec Eggs

A baked dish of hard boiled eggs layered with bread crumbs, drawn butter gravy and minced meat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Esoalopec Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Butter a baking dish and layer it with moistened bread crumbs.

  3. Prepare a thick drawn butter gravy.

  4. Mix the beaten egg into the gravy.

Assemble and bake

  1. Dip each slice of hard boiled egg in the gravy.

  2. Layer the egg slices on the bread crumbs.

  3. Sprinkle minced meat over the eggs.

  4. Repeat layering with more bread crumbs, eggs, and meat until all ingredients are used.

  5. Top with sifted bread crumbs.

  6. Heat through in the oven.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Bread + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 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

Hard boiled eggs
Form the main filling layers and provide the body of the dish.
Bread crumbs
Form the layers that soak up the gravy and give the dish its structure.
Drawn butter
Enriches the gravy, adding richness and moisture to the dish.
Milk or meat broth
Thins the gravy so it coats the eggs and moistens the crumbs.
Beaten egg
Thickens the gravy as it sets, binding the layers together.

The step that matters

Make a thick drawn butter gravy. A gravy that is too thin will soak into the bread crumbs and leave the dish soggy, while a properly thickened gravy coats the eggs and sets when heated, holding the layers together.

“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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