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Stuffed Eggs

Stuffed eggs are hard‑boiled eggs filled with a mixture of yolks, ham or tongue, butter, salt, pepper, and optionally breaded and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Remove the shells from the hard-boiled eggs and cut a small piece from each end.

  2. Cut the eggs in half crosswise and remove the yolks.

  3. Mash the yolks until smooth, then mix in the ham or tongue, melted butter, salt, and pepper.

  4. Shape the mixture into balls and press them into the egg white halves.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip the stuffed eggs in beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot oil until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Stand the stuffed eggs upright in a hot dish and serve with cream sauce, or press the halves together.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (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 white shells and the yolks that form the filling.
Egg yolks
Mashed smooth to make a rich, creamy filling.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the yolk filling moist and smooth.
Beaten eggs
Act as a binder so the bread crumbs stick to the coating.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer layer that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Breadcrumb coatings brown through Maillard reactions at high heat; if the oil is too cool the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy, while overcooking can dry the filling.

“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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