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Princess Eggs

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and asparagus work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 141 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Princess Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grease narrow and deep dariole molds with butter.

  2. Garnish the bottoms with truffle slices and coat the sides with chicken forcemeat.

  3. Prepare scrambled eggs with asparagus heads and diced truffles, keeping them soft.

  4. Add one raw beaten egg for every four scrambled eggs to the mixture.

  5. Fill the molds nearly full with the egg preparation.

  6. Cover the eggs with a layer of forcemeat.

  7. Poach in a bain-marie for 15 minutes over low heat.

  8. Turn out the molds onto a dish and surround with a drizzle of clear poultry brown sauce.

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. Truffle + asparagustop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Chicken + asparagustop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Truffle + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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

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