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Scrambled Eggs, with Truffles

Scrambled eggs cooked with butter, salt, pepper, and finely chopped truffles, served immediately.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and truffle 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 salt and pepper.

  2. Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the eggs and stir gently until they begin to set.

  2. Fold in the chopped truffles and cook until the eggs are fully set but still creamy.

  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. Butter + truffletop 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
Set into a soft, tender structure as they cook, forming the body of the dish.
Butter
Adds fat for a rich flavor and helps keep the eggs from sticking and burning.
Truffles
Add a strong earthy aroma that flavors the eggs.

The step that matters

Fold in the chopped truffles and cook until the eggs are fully set but still creamy.. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat after leaving the pan, so stopping while they still look slightly glossy keeps them creamy. Overcooking squeezes out moisture and makes them dry and rubbery.

“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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