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Fkied Eggs Axd Bacon

A simple dish of fried eggs served over browned bacon or ham.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,526 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Fkied Eggs Axd Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Add the bacon or ham slices and cook until nicely browned.

  3. Crack the eggs into the pan and cook until the whites are set.

  4. Trim the eggs neatly and place them on top of the meat.

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. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 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

Bacon or ham
Renders fat into the pan and browns, giving savoury flavour to the dish.
Eggs
Whites set when heated, forming the cooked base and topping of the dish.

The step that matters

Cooking the eggs until the whites are set. Egg whites firm up at moderate heat, while the yolks thicken more slowly. Cooking too hot makes the whites rubbery and browned at the edges, so keep the heat moderate and watch for the whites to turn opaque.

“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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