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CEufs Brouilles {Scrambled Eggs}

Scrambled eggs served over buttered toasted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

CEufs Brouilles {Scrambled Eggs}

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl, add salt and pepper, and beat until well mixed.

  2. In a saucepan, melt the butter and add the cream.

Cook and serve

  1. Stir in the egg mixture and cook over medium heat until it begins to set.

  2. Prepare toasted bread, cut into quarters, and place on a hot dish.

  3. Pour the scrambled eggs over the toast, garnish with fresh parsley, and serve.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  5. 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

Eggs
Set into soft curds that form the body of the dish.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness, keeping the eggs tender rather than dry.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps keep the eggs from sticking to the pan.

The step that matters

Cooking the eggs over medium heat until they just begin to set. Egg proteins set and tighten with heat, so cooking too hard or too long makes them dry and rubbery. Stirring gently while they are still soft keeps the curds tender and moist.

“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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