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Salsify with One Egg

Fried salsify slices coated in beaten egg and breadcrumbs, served with optional milk stew.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Salsify with One Egg

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scrape the outside of the salsify, then parboil and slice it.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip the slices into the beaten egg, then coat with fine bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the coated slices in lard until golden brown.

Alternative method

  1. Alternatively, boil the salsify.

  2. Then stew it in milk with a little salt and butter for a few minutes.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Salsify
Is the main vegetable, providing the dish's body and mild flavour once cooked.
Egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the salsify slices so the coating stays on during frying.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp golden coating that browns when fried.
Lard
Conducts heat for frying and encourages browning of the crumb coating.
Milk
Gives a creamy, tender texture when the salsify is stewed in it.

The step that matters

Frying the coated slices in lard until golden brown. The egg and crumb coating can burn before the surface browns evenly if the fat is too hot, or become greasy if the fat is not hot enough. Steady heat lets the coating set and turn golden without absorbing excess fat.

“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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