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Consomme with Poached Eggs

A consommé served with poached eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,922 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Consomme with Poached Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Poach the eggs

  1. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and add vinegar.

  2. Carefully drop the eggs, one by one, into the boiling water.

  3. Cook the eggs slowly until firm, avoiding a rolling boil.

  4. Remove the eggs with a spoon or perforated skimmer and place them in cold water briefly.

Serve in consommé

  1. Trim the edges of the eggs evenly and transfer them to a tureen.

  2. Pour the boiling Consommé gently into the tureen and serve.

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 + vinegartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Egg and vinegar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,922 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into firm, tender portions that hold their shape in the hot consommé.
Vinegar
Helps the egg whites coagulate quickly, keeping the eggs compact in the water.
Consommé or gilt-edged bouillon
Forms the clear, savory broth that the poached eggs are served in.

The step that matters

Cook the eggs slowly until firm, avoiding a rolling boil. A rolling boil tears the delicate egg whites apart, while gentle heat lets the proteins set evenly and keep each egg intact.

“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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