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Poached Egg on Triscuit

Poached egg served on buttered Triscuit crackers with parsley garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Poached Egg on Triscuit

Ingredients

Directions

Poach the eggs

  1. Boil enough milk to cover the eggs in a pan.

  2. Add a pinch of coarse sea salt to the boiling milk.

  3. Break two fresh eggs into the boiling milk.

  4. Remove the pan from the heat and let the eggs cook gently for a few minutes.

  5. Carefully take up the eggs and trim them.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place each egg on a toasted or heated Triscuit that has been buttered.

  2. Garnish with parsley and serve hot.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  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 + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  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
Set into soft, tender whites and a runny yolk that forms the topping.
Milk
Provides a gentle, moist poaching liquid that cooks the eggs without boiling them hard.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour to the cracker and helps it brown lightly when toasted.

The step that matters

Remove the pan from the heat before the eggs cook. Milk held at a rolling boil makes egg whites toughen and break apart. Taking the pan off the heat lets the eggs cook gently and stay tender.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, 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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