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Eggs with Dried Beef

Eggs with dried beef is a savory dish of eggs cooked with thinly shaved dried beef, butter, cream or milk, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Eggs with Dried Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shave the dried beef very thin.

  2. Melt the butter in a pan.

  3. Add the shaved dried beef to the butter.

  4. Let the mixture simmer for about 10 minutes.

  5. Stir in the cream or milk.

  6. Beat the eggs.

  7. Stir the beaten eggs into the mixture rapidly once it is set.

  8. Serve immediately.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Beef + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Dried beef
Provides the salty, savory meat flavor that defines the dish.
Eggs
Set into a soft, scrambled-style texture that binds the mixture together.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the eggs tender rather than dry.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the beef cook gently in the pan.

The step that matters

Stirring in the beaten eggs. Eggs set quickly when heated, so they should be stirred in rapidly once the mixture is set. Stirring keeps the curds small and tender, while leaving them still can make them tough or uneven.

“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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