Why it works: Egg and butter 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 ↓
Egg Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the eggs
Boil the eggs for 15 minutes.
Dip them in cold water to prevent discoloration.
Peel off the shells.
Make the sauce
Chop the yolks and the whites of 2 eggs.
Stir the chopped eggs into the melted butter.
Serve with boiled fish or poultry.
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.
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Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked 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
- Hard-cooked yolks and whites add body and mild richness to the sauce.
- Butter
- Melted butter coats the chopped egg and adds smooth richness and flavor.
The step that matters
Cool the eggs in cold water right after boiling. Rapid cooling stops residual cooking and limits the gray-green ring that forms when iron in the yolk reacts with sulfur in the white.
“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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