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A quick egg and cheese scramble cooked in butter, served hot on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter 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 ↓

Egg Fqndtj

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs until light.

  2. Add cheese, cream, salt, and pepper to the eggs.

Cook

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

  2. Pour in the egg mixture and stir until smooth and thick.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately on hot buttered toast.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Cream + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the main structure, setting into a tender, sliceable custard when heated.
Cheese
Adds savoury richness and fat, and helps the frittata hold together as it sets.
Cream
Adds moisture and fat, keeping the eggs soft and tender rather than dry.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour, and helps the surface of the pan-cooked eggs brown lightly.

The step that matters

Pour in the egg mixture and stir until smooth and thick.. Egg proteins set as they heat. Stirring keeps the curds small and the texture smooth. Overheating or leaving the eggs unstirred makes them firm, grainy, and rubbery.

“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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