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Cheese Eggs

A quick egg and cheese mixture cooked in butter, served hot on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Cheese Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

  2. Add the milk, cheese, and seasonings to the eggs.

  3. Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir until thickened.

  2. Serve the mixture hot on buttered toast or fried bread.

  3. Garnish with watercress.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + watercresstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelette as they cook and thicken.
Butter
Adds richness and helps keep the egg from sticking to the pan.
Cheese
Melts into the eggs, adding savoury flavour and a creamy texture.
Milk
Adds moisture, keeping the eggs softer and more tender as they set.

The step that matters

Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir until thickened. Eggs set quickly over moderate heat and turn rubbery if overcooked. Stirring until just thickened keeps the curds soft and the omelette tender.

“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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