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Dropped Eggs

Poached eggs are gently dropped into boiling water and lightly salted, garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,765 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Dropped Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Poach the eggs

  1. Bring a saucepan of water to a rolling boil.

  2. Gently break each egg into the boiling water, being careful not to break the yolks.

  3. Use a spoon to ladle hot water over the eggs until a skin forms.

  4. Remove the eggs with a skimmer and place them on a flat dish.

Season and serve

  1. Lightly salt the eggs and garnish the platter with parsley.

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. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg whites set in hot water around the yolk, giving the poached eggs their shape and structure.

The step that matters

Breaking each egg into the boiling water. Egg whites set quickly in hot water, so a gentle break keeps the yolk intact and the white from scattering. Lowering the egg close to the surface helps it hold together.

“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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