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Cold Eggs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,978 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cold Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Coat the bottom and sides of small oval molds with a thin layer of jelly.

  2. Garnish the molds as desired.

  3. Insert a small cold poached egg into each mold.

  4. Fill the molds with melted jelly.

  5. On a serving dish, place a vegetable salad in the center, surrounded by sliced cold potatoes.

  6. Remove the eggs from the molds and arrange them around the salad.

  7. Border the dish with jelly.

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. Egg + potatotop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

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

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

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