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Curried Eggs

Hard-boiled eggs served in curry sauce with fried rice balls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,396 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Curried Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the eggs until hard, then remove the shells and cut them in half.

  2. Heat the curry sauce in a separate pan.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place the egg halves upright in a hot dish.

  2. Pour the heated curry sauce around the eggs, avoiding pouring it over them.

  3. Garnish the dish with nicely browned fried rice balls.

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. Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Egg + ricetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,350 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Egg + saucetop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,895 recipes

Egg and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 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
Provide the main protein structure of the dish, with firm whites and set yolks after boiling.
Curry sauce
Adds moisture and savory flavor that coats and surrounds the eggs.

The step that matters

Boiling the eggs until hard. Eggs boiled too briefly leave runny yolks, while overcooking causes a grey-green ring around the yolk. Timing the boil so the yolks are fully set but still tender keeps the halves neat and appealing once cut.

“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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