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Buttered Eggs

A simple dish of eggs cooked in melted butter, served over toast or as a sauce for fish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Buttered Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs (yolks and whites) together well with the salt.

  2. Melt the butter in a basin placed in boiling water.

Make the eggs

  1. Pour the melted butter into a saucepan, then add the eggs.

  2. Place the saucepan over low heat and mix the contents by pouring back and forth until hot and thick.

Serve

  1. Serve over toast or in a tureen as a sauce for salt fish or red herrings.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set and thicken as they heat, forming the body of the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and smooth moisture, carrying the eggs into a silky texture.

The step that matters

Cooking over low heat while pouring back and forth. Eggs thicken from gentle heat; too much heat scrambles the proteins into curds. Keeping the heat low and the contents moving lets the mixture thicken evenly into a smooth, thick sauce.

“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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