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A breakfast dish of hard-boiled eggs filled with a minced meat and egg yolk mixture, topped with gravy and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Eoc-Baskets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Remove the shells from the hard-boiled eggs and cut them in half.

  2. Extract the yolks and mash them with melted butter, pepper, and salt.

Make the filling

  1. Finely pound the minced meat and mix it with the egg paste, moistening with a little melted butter or gravy.

  2. Slice a small piece from the bottom of the egg whites to make them stand upright.

  3. Fill the egg whites with the meat and egg mixture and arrange them on a flat dish.

Serve

  1. Heat the remaining gravy and pour it over the filled eggs, adding a few spoonfuls of cream.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Butter + meattop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,594 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + meattop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 recipes

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

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Egg whites form the edible holder, and mashed yolks give the filling its body and richness.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mashed yolk filling.
Minced meat
Provides the savory bulk of the filling, bound with the yolk paste.
Gravy
Moistens the filling and adds savory flavor to the finished dish.
Cream
Adds richness and a smoother texture to the gravy poured over the eggs.

The step that matters

Slice a small piece from the bottom of the egg whites. A thin, flat base lets each half stand upright on the dish. Cutting too much can tear the white and leave the filling exposed.

“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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