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Scrambled Eggs, with Truffles

Scrambled eggs cooked with butter, salt, pepper, and chopped truffles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,209 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Scrambled Eggs, with Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with a pinch of salt and pepper.

  2. Melt butter in a pan over medium heat.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the eggs and cook gently, stirring continuously.

  2. When the eggs are just set, fold in the chopped truffles.

  3. Serve immediately.

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 + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + truffletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,604 recipes

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

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Truffle + peppertop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,106 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a soft, creamy structure as they cook and coagulate with gentle stirring.
Truffles
Add a earthy, aromatic flavour that is released as they are folded into the warm eggs.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the eggs a smooth texture and preventing them from sticking.

The step that matters

Cook the eggs gently and stop when just set. Eggs turn from creamy to dry and rubbery when overheated, because the proteins tighten and squeeze out water. Gentle heat and constant stirring keep the curds small and tender, so the eggs should be removed from the heat while still slightly glossy.

“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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