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Deviled Eggs

Deviled eggs topped with a sauce mixture of butter, mustard, tomato, Worcestershire, mushroom, and anchovy, served on buttered toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Deviled Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a chafing dish, combine butter, mustard, tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and mushroom sauce.

  2. Slice the hard-boiled eggs and add them to the mixture, along with salt and pepper.

  3. Spread anchovy sauce on the buttered toast.

  4. Heat the egg mixture thoroughly and then place it on the toast.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Sliced eggs form the main body of the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the sauces blend into a smooth mixture.
Mustard
Adds sharp, tangy flavour that cuts through the richness.
Tomato sauce
Adds sweetness and acidity to the filling.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cheese, butter, milk, flour, pepper, mustard):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cheese, butter, milk, flour, pepper, mustard. 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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