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Mirabeau Eggs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,323 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mirabeau Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break the eggs and cook them.

  2. Surround each yolk with anchovy fillets.

  3. Garnish each yolk with a spray of parboiled tarragon leaves.

  4. Place a large olive stuffed with tarragon butter on either side of the yolks.

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. Tarragon + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,323 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Anchovy + olivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together880 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  3. Egg + anchovytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,330 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Anchovy + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,697 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Olive + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the tarragon

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Tarragonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, anchovy, olive, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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