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Egg and Chutney Sandwiches

A sandwich made with boiled eggs mixed with chutney, layered on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Egg and Chutney Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs for 15 minutes.

  2. Let them cool in the water, then remove the shells.

  3. Shred the egg whites or chop them coarsely.

  4. Crush the yolks with a wooden spoon and gradually add chutney until a moist paste forms.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Prepare thin slices of bread.

  2. Butter the bread slices.

  3. Spread half of the slices with the egg mixture.

  4. Add a thin layer of egg whites.

  5. Cover with more bread and butter.

  6. Press the sandwiches well.

  7. Trim the edges.

  8. Cut into desired shapes.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 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 main filling, with yolks mashed into a creamy base and whites adding texture.
Chutney
Adds sweetness and acidity, and moistens the crushed yolks into a spreadable paste.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps keep the bread from soaking up moisture from the filling.
White or brown bread
Provides the structure that holds the filling and carries it in each bite.

The step that matters

Crush the yolks and add chutney gradually. Adding chutney slowly lets the crushed yolks absorb liquid evenly. Adding it all at once can make the filling watery or lumpy, so it will not hold a moist, spreadable paste.

“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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