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Egg Border with Rice and Curry Sauce

Egg border with rice and curry sauce is a baked egg dish served around rice with curry sauce.

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

Egg Border with Rice and Curry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a bowl, stir together the eggs, milk, onion juice, salt, and pepper until well combined.

  3. Grease a border mold with butter and sprinkle with minced parsley.

  4. Prepare rice by boiling it in salted water for 20 minutes, then drain well.

  5. In a separate bowl, mix curry powder into the cream sauce.

Make the border

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the mold and place it in a pan of boiling water.

  2. Cover and cook in the oven for 5 to 10 minutes until firm.

Serve

  1. Turn the egg border out onto a hot platter, fill the center with rice, and pour some curry sauce over it.

  2. Pour the remaining sauce around the border, garnish with parsley, and 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a firm, sliceable custard that forms the border structure when heated.
Rich milk
Adds moisture and softness, keeping the egg custard tender rather than rubbery.
Cream sauce
Provides a smooth, rich base that carries the curry flavour across the dish.
Curry powder
Adds warm, aromatic spice flavour to the cream sauce.
Cooked rice
Forms the starchy centre filling that soaks up the curry sauce.

The step that matters

Cook the egg border in a water bath. Eggs turn rubbery and curdle when heated too fast or too hot. Setting the mold in boiling water and cooking gently in the oven keeps the custard smooth and tender.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, pepper, butter, parsley, rice, cream. 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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