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Panned Eggs

A dish of eggs topped on a ham and breadcrumb mixture, baked until set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 mixture

  1. Make a minced meat mixture of chopped ham, fine bread crumbs, pepper, coarse sea salt, and melted butter.

  2. Moisten with milk to form a soft paste.

Fill and top

  1. Half fill patty pans with the mixture.

  2. Carefully break an egg on top of each.

  3. Dust with pepper and coarse sea salt, then sprinkle finely powdered cracker over all.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for about eight minutes.

  2. 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 the soft cooked centre of each portion.
Chopped ham
Adds savoury, salty flavour and a meaty texture to the base.
Fine bread crumbs
Absorb the melted butter and milk to form a paste that holds its shape.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the mixture brown and taste rounded.
Milk
Moistens the crumbs into a soft paste with a tender texture.

The step that matters

Carefully break an egg on top of each. Keeping the yolk intact matters because the egg sets in the oven and a broken yolk spreads into the base. Gentle handling keeps each egg whole and the portions neat.

“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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