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Scrambled Eggs with Cheese

A creamy scrambled egg dish flavored with Parmesan cheese, stock, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,163 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Scrambled Eggs with Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl.

  2. Beat until the yolks and whites are blended, but not light.

  3. Add the stock and parsley, and mix well.

Cook and serve

  1. Melt the butter in a chafing dish.

  2. Add the cheese and stir until smooth.

  3. Turn in the eggs.

  4. Stir until they are set.

  5. Season.

  6. Serve as soon as they reach the desired creamy consistency.

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. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + parmesan cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the structure that sets into soft, scrambled curds as they cook.
Parmesan cheese
Melts into the eggs to add savoury richness and a smoother, creamier texture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps keep the eggs from sticking and burning.
Stock
Adds moisture that keeps the scrambled eggs tender and creamy rather than dry.

The step that matters

Serve as soon as they reach the desired creamy consistency.. Egg proteins keep setting from residual heat after they leave the pan, so eggs left to sit become firmer and drier. Removing them at the right moment keeps them soft and creamy.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, parmesan cheese, butter):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, parmesan cheese, butter. 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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