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Curried Eggs

A curry sauce served over sliced hard‑boiled eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Curried Eggs

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Mix curry powder with stock to form a paste.

  2. Simmer until reduced to 1 cup.

  3. Blend butter and flour into the stock.

Finish

  1. Slice the hard-boiled eggs.

  2. Add the sliced eggs to the mixture.

  3. Bring to a boil and serve very 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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Main ingredient, providing the bulk and protein of the dish.
Flour
Thickens the stock into a smooth sauce as its starch swells when heated.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, silky mouthfeel in the sauce.
Curry powder
Supplies the warm, aromatic spice flavor that defines the dish.
Stock
Forms the liquid base that carries the flavor and becomes the sauce.

The step that matters

Blend butter and flour into the stock. If flour is added without being fully blended with the butter and stock, it clumps and stays lumpy. Mixing them thoroughly lets the starch disperse evenly so it thickens the sauce smoothly when heated.

“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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