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Eggs Upon Toast

A breakfast dish of scrambled eggs served on buttered toast with minced meat spread and garnished with parsley and pickled beets.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Eggs Upon Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Whisk the eggs with pepper, salt, and parsley in a bowl.

Cook the eggs

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the hot pan and stir for 3 minutes until cooked.

Assemble and serve

  1. Cut the toasted bread into rounds and spread with minced meat.

  2. Top each slice with a mound of the scrambled eggs.

  3. Garnish with parsley and serve with pickled beets.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into soft curds that form the topping for each slice.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor and keeps the eggs from sticking to the pan.

The step that matters

Pour the egg mixture into the hot pan and stir for 3 minutes until cooked.. Eggs cook quickly and turn rubbery if overheated, so stirring over moderate heat keeps the curds soft and tender rather than dry or tough.

“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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