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Egg Wine

A warm beverage made by whisking an egg with wine and heating gently, served with toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Egg Wine

Why it works: Egg and wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,918 recipes. Both carry 2-heptenal, which smells green. The science ↓

Egg Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Beat the egg in a bowl.

  2. Gradually add the wine to the egg, stirring well.

Heat and serve

  1. Return the mixture to a saucepan and place it over low heat.

  2. Stir continuously for no more than one minute to avoid boiling.

  3. Serve warm with toast.

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. Egg + winetop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Thickens gently as its proteins set with heat, giving the drink a creamy body.
Wine
Provides the main liquid and flavour, and its acidity balances the richness of the egg.

The step that matters

Stir continuously over low heat without letting it boil. Egg proteins set when heated, and above a gentle heat they curdle or scramble. Constant stirring spreads the heat evenly, so the mixture thickens smoothly instead of turning grainy.

“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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