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Stuffed Egg

A hard‑cooked egg filled with a seasoned yolk mixture and served on lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,356 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffed Egg

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the egg

  1. Remove the shell from the egg and cut it in half.

  2. Take out the yolk, leaving the white whole.

Fill and serve

  1. Mash the yolk and mix in the chicken, salt, vinegar, mustard, cayenne, and olive oil or butter.

  2. Fill the egg white with the yolk mixture.

  3. Serve on a bed of lettuce.

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. Mustard + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,356 recipes

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

  2. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  3. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard cooked egg
Provides the white shell for holding the filling and the yolk for the mixture.
Chicken
Adds savory protein bulk to the mashed yolk filling.
Olive oil or butter
Adds fat that makes the mashed yolk filling smooth and rich.
Mustard
Adds sharp, tangy flavor that cuts the richness of the yolk.

The step that matters

Mashing the yolk with the fat. Mash the yolk thoroughly before adding the other ingredients so it blends evenly. Lumps of dry yolk stay grainy, while adding the oil or butter gradually helps it emulsify into a smooth, spreadable filling.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, chicken, vinegar, mustard, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Lettucethe original
  3. Cucumberfits about as well
  4. Broccolifits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, chicken, vinegar, mustard, olive. 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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