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Egg Sauce for Fish

A sauce made from boiled eggs, butter, and salt, served with salt fish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 for Fish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Boil the eggs for 10 minutes.

  2. Place the boiled eggs in cold water for 5 minutes.

  3. Remove the shells from the eggs.

  4. Mince the eggs very finely.

Make and serve the sauce

  1. Beat the butter until creamy.

  2. Mix the minced eggs into the butter.

  3. Heat the sauce gently.

  4. Serve the sauce with salt fish.

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 + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked 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
Set into fine pieces that give the sauce body and a soft, rich texture.
Butter
Provides fat that carries flavour and gives the sauce a smooth, creamy mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Heat the sauce gently. Butter and egg proteins can separate or curdle under high heat, so low, gentle warming keeps the sauce smooth and cohesive.

“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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