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Fried Eggs

A simple fried egg cooked in fat until whites are set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Fried Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the fat in a skillet over medium heat.

  2. Break the eggs into a saucer and gently slide them into the skillet.

  3. Spoon the hot fat over the eggs to cook the tops.

  4. Serve when the egg whites are fully cooked.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg proteins set as they heat, giving the fried egg its structure and firm white.
Fat
Conducts heat evenly across the egg and keeps the bottom from sticking to the skillet.

The step that matters

Spoon the hot fat over the eggs to cook the tops. Egg white proteins set with heat, so the top stays raw and runny unless hot fat is spooned over it. Gentle heat keeps the whites tender instead of rubbery and the yolks warm but fluid.

“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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