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German Noodles

German noodles are egg-based pasta made by mixing eggs with flour, kneading, rolling thin, drying, cutting, and boiling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

German Noodles

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Mix the eggs with enough flour to make a stiff paste.

  2. Knead well, using plenty of flour until all moisture is absorbed.

Shape and dry

  1. Roll the dough as thin as paper and dry it near the fire.

  2. Cut into strips half an inch wide.

Cook and serve

  1. Poach the strips in boiling salted water for 5 minutes.

  2. Drain and serve in soup or with a good sauce.

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 + 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

Eggs
Bind the flour into a stiff dough and add richness and structure to the noodles.
Flour
Forms the dough's structure, and its absorbed moisture keeps the kneaded dough firm enough to roll.

The step that matters

Kneading until all moisture is absorbed. Adding flour until the dough stops being sticky keeps it from tearing when rolled. Wet dough makes thin noodles hard to handle and can make them gummy after cooking.

“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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