Name: White of Egg and Soda Water
Ingredients: 1 egg white; 1 tablespoon brandy or lemon juice; 1 cup soda water

Why it works: Egg and brandy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,340 recipes. Both carry acetoin, which smells butter, cream. The science ↓

White of Egg and Soda Water

Ingredients

1 egg white
1 tablespoon brandy or lemon juice
1 cup soda water

Directions

Beat the egg white until frothy.
Pour the frothy egg white into a glass.
Add the brandy or lemon juice.
Fill the glass with soda water.

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.

Egg + brandytop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,340 recipes

Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

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What each ingredient does

Egg white: Whipped into foam, it gives the drink a light, frothy texture and head.
Brandy or lemon juice: Adds acidity and aroma that brighten the drink's flavour.

“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.