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Keeping- Eggs Fresh

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and lime are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 34% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,658 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Keeping- Eggs Fresh

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place 2 to 3 inches of fine-ground land plaster at the bottom of the vessel.

  2. Stand fresh eggs upright, small end down, close together but not crowded, to form the first layer.

  3. Add more plaster to support the second layer of eggs.

  4. Continue layering eggs and plaster until the vessel is full.

  5. Cover the top layer of eggs with plaster.

  6. For long-term storage, mix 1 pint of unslacked lime and 1 pint of coarse salt in a pail of water.

  7. Store the mixture in a cool place and add fresh eggs as soon as possible.

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 + limetop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,658 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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