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Eggs and Bacon

Eggs and bacon filled with a savory mixture of yolks, meat, and seasonings, baked and served on bacon or ham.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Eggs and Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the eggs for 5 minutes, then peel and cut them in half.

  2. Remove the yolks and pound them in a mortar with the white meat, ham, parsley, shallot, cream, ketchup, cayenne, bread crumbs, and mace.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the egg white halves with the mixture.

  2. Bake gently at 350°F (175°C) for 10 minutes.

  3. Serve on broiled bacon or ham with some sauce over.

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. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Shallot + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

  4. Cream + ketchuptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the base shells and the rich filling binder once the yolks are mixed in.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the filling body so it holds its shape.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness to the filling, keeping it from drying out in the oven.
Bacon or ham
Adds savoury, salty flavour and browning when broiled under the eggs.

The step that matters

Bake gently at 350°F (175°C) for 10 minutes. High heat would toughen the egg white and filling proteins, causing rubbery texture and drying the mixture. Gentle heat sets the filling evenly while keeping it moist.

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, meat, ham, parsley, cream, ketchup, pepper):

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Mustardfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, meat, ham, parsley, cream, ketchup, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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