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Eqg Salmagundi

A savory dish of eggs, cream, mushrooms, sweetbread, and fried bread croutons.

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

Eqg Salmagundi

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt the butter in a stew-pan.

  2. Chop the sweetbread and fry it with the mushrooms in the butter until white.

  3. Beat the eggs and mix them with the cream.

  4. Pour the egg and cream mixture into the stew-pan.

  5. Stir over a gentle fire until the mixture thickens.

Serve

  1. Serve with croutons of fried bread.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Mushroom + lambtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set and thicken the mixture as they cook, giving the dish its body.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, keeping the eggs soft and creamy as they set.
Butter
Fat for frying and enriching the dish, adding flavour and a silky mouthfeel.
Lamb's sweetbread
Provides the tender, meaty main component of the dish.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour that complements the sweetbread and eggs.

The step that matters

Stir over a gentle fire until the mixture thickens. Eggs set from proteins that coagulate with heat. High heat or neglect can overcook them, making the mixture grainy or curdled instead of smooth and creamy.

“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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