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Omelette Au Sucre

A sweet omelette made with eggs, sugar, and butter, optionally flavored with citrus zest, vanilla sugar, or liqueur.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,227 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Omelette Au Sucre

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Separate the egg yolks from the whites.

  2. Beat the yolks with the sugar until the mixture lightens in color.

  3. Gradually add the egg whites while continuing to mix.

Cook and serve

  1. Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet once the butter is hot.

  3. Gather the omelette to one side of the skillet.

  4. Carefully flip the omelette onto a plate, rolling it into a crescent shape.

  5. Optional: Decorate the surface with a heated metal stick and serve.

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. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  5. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whites add airy lift and structure, while yolks give richness and set the omelette.
Sugar
Beaten with the yolks, it sweetens the omelette and helps the mixture thicken and lighten.
Butter
Fat for the skillet that prevents sticking and adds flavor and light browning.

The step that matters

Gradually add the egg whites while continuing to mix. Whites folded in too quickly or over-beaten can deflate, losing the air that gives the omelette its lift. Adding them gradually and mixing gently keeps the batter light and airy.

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Raisinfits about as well
  4. Figfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, butter. 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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