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Stuffed Eggs

Stuffed eggs filled with a creamy meat mixture, coated in breadcrumbs, and fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Stuffed Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the hard-boiled eggs in half and remove the yolks.

  2. Press the yolks through a sieve and mix with melted butter until smooth.

  3. Add the chopped meat and season with salt and pepper.

  4. Gradually mix in the cream until the mixture is the right consistency for stuffing.

Stuff and coat

  1. Fill each egg half with the mixture and smooth the top.

  2. Brush a little raw egg white over the edges and press the halves together.

  3. Roll the stuffed eggs in egg and then in bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in hot oil until golden brown.

  2. Serve with a cream sauce.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 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. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Provide the yolks for a smooth filling and the whites that form the shell around it.
Cooked meat
Adds savory bulk and flavor to the filling.
Cream
Adds moisture so the filling becomes soft enough to pipe and stuff.
Butter
Adds richness and smoothness to the yolk mixture.
Raw egg white
Acts as a binding glue that seals the two egg halves together.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden browned coating when fried.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Frying at high heat quickly browns the crumb coating, and the coating must be well sealed so the filling does not leak into the oil.

“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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