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Scrambled Eggs

A simple dish of beaten eggs cooked in butter until thickened.

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 ↓

Scrambled Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the eggs until light.

  2. Heat a clean frying pan and add the butter.

  3. Pour the eggs into the pan and stir carefully until thickened.

  4. Serve on a hot dish, ensuring no eggs stick to the pan.

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 into soft curds as they cook, providing the main structure and body of the dish.
Butter
Adds fat that keeps the eggs moist and helps prevent them from sticking to the pan.

The step that matters

Stir carefully until thickened. Eggs set from liquid into soft curds as proteins coagulate under heat. Cooking gently and stirring keeps the curds tender and moist, while high heat or overcooking makes them dry, rubbery and more likely to stick.

“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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