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Breakfast Sausage and Cornflake Scotch Eggs Recipe

A recipe for Scotch eggs that uses breakfast sausage and crushed cornflakes to coat the boiled eggs, which are then topped with a maple syrup drizzle.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Breakfast Sausage and Cornflake Scotch Eggs Recipe

Why it works: Pork and maple syrup work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 269 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Breakfast Sausage and Cornflake Scotch Eggs Recipe

6 eggs
Cook1 hr 20 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

952Calories
46 gProtein
34 gFat
110 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Pork + maple syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together269 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pepper + porktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + maple syruptop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,034 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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