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Savory Eggs

Savory Eggs are boiled eggs filled with a mixture of mashed yolks, minced chicken, and ham, served with gravy and garnishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,497 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Savory Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs hard and remove the shells.

  2. Cut each egg in half and trim a small piece from the ends to make them stand upright.

  3. Remove the yolks and mash them.

Fill and serve

  1. Mix the mashed yolks with the minced chicken and ham.

  2. Fill the egg whites with the yolk mixture.

  3. Pour rich gravy around the eggs, but not over them.

  4. Serve cold if desired, garnished with finely cut endive, small salad, and beet-root.

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. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Egg + hamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Chicken + endivetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Egg + endivetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Egg + chickentop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the white shells and yolks, which form the base and filling of the dish.
Finely minced hot chicken
Adds savory meat flavor and body to the yolk filling.
Finely minced ham
Adds salty, savory flavor and texture to the yolk filling.
Rich gravy
Adds moisture and savory richness around the stuffed eggs.

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, chicken, ham):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, chicken, ham. 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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