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Stuffed Eggs

Stuffed eggs are hard‑boiled eggs filled with a yolk mixture, coated in crumbs, and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the hard-boiled eggs in half and remove the yolks.

  2. Mash the yolks finely and mix in the butter, cream, onion juice, salt, and pepper.

  3. Fill the egg whites with the yolk mixture and reassemble the eggs.

Coat and fry

  1. Add the beaten egg to any remaining filling and cover the stuffed eggs with this mixture.

  2. Roll the eggs in bread or cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry in hot butter until light brown.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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

  5. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard boiled eggs
Provide the egg whites that hold the filling and the yolks that form the stuffing.
Butter
Adds richness to the yolk filling and browns the coated eggs when fried.
Cream
Loosens the mashed yolks so the filling becomes smooth and easy to spoon.
Beaten egg
Binds the crumb coating so it adheres to the stuffed eggs during frying.
Bread or cracker crumbs
Forms a crisp, golden outer crust when the coated eggs are fried.

The step that matters

Fry in hot butter until light brown. Frying in hot butter sets and browns the crumb coating quickly, so the crust turns golden before the filling heats through and the coating can become greasy or burn.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, cream, pepper, 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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