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Egg Salad, with Mayonnaise

A salad of boiled eggs mixed with mayonnaise, served on buttered thin brown bread with raspberries, cream, white cake, and tea.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Egg Salad, with Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the egg salad

  1. Boil the eggs until hard, then cool and peel them.

  2. Chop the eggs and mix with mayonnaise to taste.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread butter on thin slices of brown bread.

  2. Serve the egg salad on the bread.

  3. Accompany with raspberries and cream.

  4. Serve with white cake and tea.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Bread + teatop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together383 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. 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
Provide the main body and rich texture of the salad once chopped.
Mayonnaise
Adds moisture and creaminess that binds the chopped eggs together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread and keeps it from soaking up the filling.
Thin brown bread
Serves as the base that holds the egg salad.

The step that matters

Boil the eggs until hard, then cool and peel them.. Overcooked eggs develop a grey-green ring around the yolk and a dry, crumbly texture. Cooling them promptly in cold water stops further cooking and makes peeling easier.

“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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