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Stuffed Eggs

Hard‑boiled eggs filled with a ham and yolk mixture, then browned in the oven.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,475 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the eggs hard, then remove the shells.

  2. Cut the eggs in half lengthwise and remove the yolks.

  3. Mash the yolks finely and season with butter, pepper, and salt.

  4. Chop the cold boiled ham finely and mix it with the yolk mixture.

Fill and brown

  1. Fill the halved egg whites with the yolk and ham mixture.

  2. Place the filled egg halves in a pan and brown them slightly in the oven.

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 + hamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

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

  2. Egg + hamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

  5. Pepper + hamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,058 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the white shells and rich yolks that form the base of the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, making the mashed yolk filling smooth and moist.
Cold boiled ham
Adds savory flavor and a firmer texture to the yolk filling.

The step that matters

Brown them slightly in the oven. Egg whites and filling can dry out or overbrown quickly; gentle heat browns the surface through Maillard reactions while keeping the filling moist.

“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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