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Egg Cutlets

Egg cutlets are small patties made from chopped hard‑boiled eggs, breadcrumbs, grated cheese, pepper, sea salt, and beaten eggs, baked in a butter‑greased baking bag.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Egg Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Mix and shape

  1. Combine the chopped hard-boiled eggs, breadcrumbs, grated cheese, pepper, and sea salt in a bowl.

  2. Mix well and bind the mixture with the beaten yolks of the two eggs.

  3. Shape the mixture into cutlets.

Bake

  1. Grease a baking bag with butter and place the cutlets inside.

  2. Cook in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 10 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Provide the main body of the cutlets and a firm, tender texture.
Fine bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold together while shaped.
Grated cheese
Adds savory flavor and helps the surface brown during baking.
Beaten eggs
Bind the mixture, as their proteins set when heated and hold the shape.

The step that matters

Bind the mixture well before shaping. Egg proteins set when heated, so the beaten egg must be evenly mixed through the chopped eggs and crumbs. Otherwise the cutlets may crumble or lose their shape in the oven.

“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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