Name: Egg Flip
Ingredients: 1 egg; 2 teaspoons sugar; ⅓ cup sherry wine (or preferred wine)

Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Egg Flip

Ingredients

1 egg
2 teaspoons sugar
⅓ cup sherry wine (or preferred wine)

Directions

Beat the egg until well combined.
Add sugar and mix until dissolved.
Pour sherry wine over the egg mixture.
Serve immediately.

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.

Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + sherrytop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,141 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Egg + sherrytop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,324 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Egg: Provides structure and body, thickening the drink into a rich, creamy texture.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the wine.
Sherry wine: Adds acidity and aromatic flavour that defines the drink.

“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.