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Scrambled Eggs, with Truffles

Scrambled eggs cooked with butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, and finished with finely chopped truffles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,209 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Scrambled Eggs, with Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with a pinch of coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  2. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour in the eggs and cook gently, stirring continuously.

  2. Add finely chopped truffles just before the eggs are fully set.

  3. Serve immediately.

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. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + truffletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,604 recipes

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

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Truffle + peppertop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,106 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the protein that coagulates into a soft, creamy scramble.
Truffles
Add an earthy, aromatic flavour that infuses the warm eggs.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, keeping the eggs tender and helping prevent sticking.

The step that matters

Add the truffles before the eggs are fully set. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat after leaving the pan, so adding truffles while they are still slightly loose keeps the curds soft. Fully set eggs turn dry and rubbery, and the truffle aroma fades with prolonged heat.

“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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