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Panned Eggs

A dish of ham and bread crumb mixture topped with eggs, baked until set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Panned Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine chopped ham, bread crumbs, pepper, salt, and melted butter.

  2. Moisten the mixture with milk to form a soft paste.

Fill and bake

  1. Half fill patty pans with the mixture.

  2. Carefully break an egg on top of each filled patty pan.

  3. Dust with additional pepper and sprinkle with powdered crackers.

  4. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for about 8 minutes.

  5. Serve hot.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when baked, forming soft cooked centers on top of the ham filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the melted butter and milk to form a soft, binding paste.
Ham
Provides savory flavor and substance to the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavor and softening the crumb texture.
Milk
Moistens the crumbs so they bind into a spreadable paste.

The step that matters

Carefully break an egg on top of each filled patty pan. The egg white spreads if the yolk breaks or the pan is overfilled, so the egg cooks unevenly. Keeping the yolk intact and the filling only half full lets the egg set neatly on top during baking.

“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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