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Stuffed Egos

A dish of hard‑boiled eggs filled with a seasoned yolk mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Egos

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs hard, then cool in water and peel.

  2. Cut the eggs in half crosswise and remove the yolks.

Make and stuff

  1. Mash the yolks and mix with salt, pepper, melted butter, bread crumbs, ham, and celery.

  2. Stuff the egg whites with the yolk mixture.

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.

Explore the science

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. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  3. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

  5. Butter + hamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the whites that form the shell and the yolks that make the filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the melted butter and yolk, giving the filling body and a softer texture.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, making the mashed yolk filling smooth and moist.
Ham
Adds savory, salty flavor to the yolk filling.
Celery
Adds a crisp, fresh crunch and mild flavor to the filling.

The step that matters

Mash the yolks and mix the filling. Yolks should be mashed fully smooth before mixing in the other ingredients, so the filling binds evenly and holds its shape when spooned into the whites.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, butter, bread, ham):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, butter, bread, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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