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Stuffed Eggs with Mushrooms

Hard‑boiled eggs filled with a mushroom mixture, coated in breadcrumbs and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Hard boil the eggs, then cut them in half and remove the yolks.

  2. Mince the mushrooms and cook them for two hours.

  3. Add the flour, pepper, salt, fried onion, and finely chopped egg yolks to the mushrooms.

Fill and coat

  1. Fill the egg halves with the mushroom mixture.

  2. Dip the stuffed eggs in beaten egg, then roll them in parsley and bread crumbs.

Bake

  1. Bake for 10 minutes at 350°F (175°C).

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the shell halves that hold the filling, and the yolks that enrich the mixture.
Mushrooms
Form the savoury body of the filling and release moisture as they cook.
Flour
Thickens the mushroom mixture by absorbing liquid, so the filling holds its shape.
Fried onion
Adds a savoury, toasted aroma to the mushroom filling.
Dried bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating on the outside of the stuffed eggs.

The step that matters

Cooking the mushrooms. Mushrooms release a lot of water as they cook. Cooking them long enough drives off that moisture, so the filling thickens with the flour rather than becoming runny and soaking the egg halves.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, mushroom, butter, flour, pepper, parsley, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, mushroom, butter, flour, pepper, parsley, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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