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Moonshine Eggs

Eggs baked with butter and fine dry bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Moonshine Eggs

Oven, in the book's wordsA warm oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Butter the pans well and sprinkle with fine dry bread crumbs, leaving whole crumbs.

Assemble

  1. Break 2 eggs into each pan and sprinkle more crumbs on top.

  2. Place a small piece of butter on top of each egg.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake until the eggs are set, then turn out and serve hot.

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

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

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set to form the soft, cohesive body of the dish as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the surface brown while the eggs cook.
Fine dry bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating and help the eggs release cleanly from the pan.

The step that matters

Bake until the eggs are set. Egg proteins coagulate as they heat, so removing the dish at the right moment keeps the eggs tender. Overbaking squeezes out moisture and makes them rubbery and dry.

“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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