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Egg Gruel

A simple dish of beaten egg yolk and white folded into boiling water and seasoned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Egg Gruel

Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Egg Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the egg yolk with the sugar.

  2. Beat the egg white separately until stiff.

  3. Add the boiling water to the yolk mixture and stir well.

  4. Gently fold in the beaten egg white.

  5. Add seasoning to taste.

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 + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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

Egg yolk
Adds richness and body, and thickens the warm liquid slightly as it blends in.
Egg white
Beaten until stiff, it adds airy lightness to the finished gruel.
Sugar
Sweetens the gruel and helps the beaten yolk stay smooth.

The step that matters

Gently fold in the beaten egg white. Stiff egg white holds air, and folding gently instead of stirring keeps that air in the mixture. Vigorous stirring deflates the foam and makes the gruel dense and flat.

“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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