Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 118,967 recipes mention both. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Egg Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Beat the yolks of the eggs in a dish with the butter.
Gradually pour in the boiling water while stirring continuously until well mixed and the butter is melted.
Pour the mixture into a saucepan.
Stir the mixture in the saucepan until it begins to simmer.
Remove the saucepan from heat.
Pour the mixture between two vessels until smooth and frothy.
Return the saucepan to heat.
Stir the mixture until hot.
Pour the mixture into a soup dish.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned 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
- Eggs
- Egg yolks thicken the soup and give it a silky, lightly rich body as they heat.
- Butter
- Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour and smoothing the texture of the soup.
- Boiling water
- Forms the liquid base and gently heats the eggs and butter when poured in.
The step that matters
Return the saucepan to heat and stir until hot. Egg yolks thicken when heated but can scramble if the mixture gets too hot too fast. Keep stirring over gentle heat and stop once the soup is hot and slightly thickened.
“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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