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Eggs with Asparagus Tips

A quick dish of eggs cooked with butter, asparagus tips, and thick cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Eggs with Asparagus Tips

Ingredients

Directions

Make the asparagus mixture

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

  2. Add the asparagus tips and thick cream, stirring well for 5 minutes.

  3. Transfer the mixture into a bag.

Cook the eggs

  1. Break the eggs over the asparagus mixture.

  2. Close the bag and cook for 2 minutes.

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

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

  2. Egg + asparagustop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,338 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + asparagustop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,026 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Asparagus + creamtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together838 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set with gentle heat to form the soft, cooked body of the dish.
Asparagus tips
Provide the main vegetable and its fresh, green flavour.
Thick cream
Adds richness and moisture to the asparagus mixture.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour to the base before the cream and asparagus are added.

The step that matters

Cooking the eggs for 2 minutes. Egg proteins set with gentle heat and become firm and rubbery if overcooked. Two minutes is a short time, so checking the set matters to avoid a tough texture.

Swap the asparagus

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg, cream):

  1. Leekfits about as well
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Asparagusthe original
  4. Chivefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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