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A simple egg and flour dough sliced into thin strips and boiled in soup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Noodles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Beat the egg until light.

  2. Add a pinch of salt and enough flour to form a stiff dough.

Shape the noodles

  1. Roll out the dough into a very thin sheet, dusting with flour to prevent sticking.

  2. Roll the sheet tightly from one end.

  3. Slice the rolled dough into fine strips.

  4. Shake out the strips and drop them into boiling soup.

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.

Explore the science

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 + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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

Egg
Binds the flour into a cohesive dough and adds richness and structure to the noodles.
Flour
Forms the gluten network that gives the dough its structure and chew once cooked.

The step that matters

Rolling the dough very thin. A thin sheet cooks through quickly in boiling liquid and gives a tender noodle. If the dough is too thick, the centre stays raw or chewy while the outside overcooks. Dusting with flour keeps the layers from sticking together.

“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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