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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: Ham and endive work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and 11 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Ham + endivetop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together11 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + hamtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,497 recipes

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

  3. Egg + hamtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + endivetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together56 recipes

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

  5. Egg + chickentop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,275 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.

Flavor stand-ins for the endive

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

  1. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  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. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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