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Panned Eggs

A baked dish of ham and breadcrumb patties topped with eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Panned Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Chop the ham into fine bits.

  2. Mix the ham with an equal amount of fine bread crumbs.

  3. Season the mixture with pepper, coarse sea salt, and a little melted butter.

  4. Moisten the mixture with milk and half fill patty tins.

Bake

  1. Break an egg on top of each filled patty tin.

  2. Dust with salt, pepper, and fine cracker crumbs.

  3. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for about eight minutes.

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. Bread + buttertop 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. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set over the patties, forming a firm, cohesive topping as they bake.
Fine bread crumbs
Absorb the milk and butter, giving the mixture body and holding it together.
Milk
Moistens the crumbs and ham, keeping the patties tender as they cook.
Melted butter
Adds fat for richness and a softer, more tender texture.
Fine cracker crumbs
Dusted on top to brown and crisp the surface in the oven.

The step that matters

Breaking the egg on the filled tin. The egg should sit neatly on top without breaking into the filling, so the yolk and white set as a distinct layer and the patty stays moist rather than scrambled.

“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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