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Stuffed Eggs

A dish of boiled eggs filled with a seasoned yolk mixture, coated in cracker crumbs, and fried until light brown.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Oven, in the book's wordsA rather slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the hard-boiled eggs in half and remove the yolks.

  2. Mash the yolks finely and mix in butter, cream, onion juice, salt, and pepper.

  3. Fill the egg whites with the yolk mixture and put them back together.

Coat and fry

  1. Add the beaten egg to the remaining filling and cover the stuffed eggs with this mixture.

  2. Roll the eggs in cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry in boiling fat until light brown.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cream + oniontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,827 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Cream and onion barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,827 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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Provide the white shells that hold the filling and the yolks that make the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth texture to the mashed yolk filling.
Cream
Loosens the mashed yolks so the filling becomes smooth and spreadable.
Beaten egg
Binds the coating so the cracker crumbs stick to the eggs.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer coating when fried.

The step that matters

Frying in boiling fat until light brown. The coating must be fully set and only lightly browned; the beaten egg binds the crumbs, and frying in hot fat browns the crumbs quickly, so too long a fry can scorch them before the coating is evenly crisp.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, cream, pepper):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, cream, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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