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Bacon Egg- Cap

A dish of bacon and eggs cooked together with stock, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Bacon Egg- Cap

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the bacon into thin slices.

  2. Stew the bacon slowly, turning it over occasionally.

  3. Remove the bacon and add stock to the grease.

Cook and finish

  1. Break the eggs over the stock.

  2. Add the bacon slices back in, along with pepper and salt.

  3. Cook over low heat and scorch the top with a hot poker.

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 + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Egg and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 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
Set into a firm, custard-like cap as they cook over the stock.
Bacon
Renders fat into the pan and adds savory, salty flavor throughout the dish.
Stock
Adds moisture and liquid that gently steams the eggs as they set.

The step that matters

Cook over low heat and scorch the top with a hot poker.. Low heat lets the eggs set gently without toughening or curdling, while the brief, direct heat from the poker browns only the surface. Overheating the whole dish would make the egg rubbery.

“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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