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Beauregard Eggs

A dish of boiled eggs served on toasted bread with cream sauce, egg whites, yolk, and parsley garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Beauregard Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs for 20 minutes, then shell them.

  2. Mash the yolks through a fine-meshed colander.

  3. Chop the whites by pressing them with a fork.

Make the filling

  1. Add the chopped whites to the cream sauce and mix well.

Assemble and garnish

  1. Cut the bread into fancy shapes.

  2. Cover the bread with the sauce and egg white mixture.

  3. Pile the yolk in the center of the bread and garnish with parsley.

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Yolks add richness and a smooth texture, while cooked whites add body to the filling.
Cream sauce
Adds moisture and richness, binding the chopped whites into a spreadable filling.
Bread
Provides a crisp, sturdy base that holds the filling.

The step that matters

Boiling the eggs. Boiling eggs for too long makes the yolks dry and crumbly and can leave a grey-green ring around them. This happens because sulfur in the white reacts with iron in the yolk at high heat. Timing the boil carefully keeps the yolks moist and bright.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream, sauce, bread):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, sauce, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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