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Panned Eggs

Eggs baked in a breadcrumb and ham mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Panned Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine chopped ham, bread crumbs, pepper, salt, and melted butter.

  2. Moisten the mixture with milk to form a soft paste.

  3. Half fill patty pans with the mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Carefully break an egg on top of each filled patty pan.

  2. Dust with additional pepper and salt, then sprinkle with powdered crackers.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for about 8 minutes.

  4. Serve hot.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set in the pan to form a soft, cooked centre atop the filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb milk and butter to bind the ham into a soft, spreadable paste.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the filling.
Milk
Moistens the crumbs so they form a soft paste that holds together.
Chopped ham
Provides savoury, salty flavour and substance to the base.

The step that matters

Carefully break an egg on top of each filled patty pan.. Breaking the egg gently keeps the yolk intact and centred on the filling, so it cooks evenly rather than spreading or breaking into the crumbs.

“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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