Name: Egg Discs
Ingredients: eggs; butter; shrimp butter; Montpellier butter; caviar butter

Why it works: Butter and caviar work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 107 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Egg Discs

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the eggs into round slices about ⅓ inch thick, discarding the ends.
Make a small rosette of butter in the center of each slice using a grooved piping tool.
Use different flavored butters like shrimp, Montpellier, and caviar for variety.

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.

Butter + caviartop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together107 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Butter + shrimptop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,931 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Egg + caviartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Shrimp + caviartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together24 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).