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Egg Omelet Foe Two Pebsons

A fluffy egg omelet made with beaten yolks, egg whites, milk, salt, pepper, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Egg Omelet Foe Two Pebsons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs.

  2. Beat the yolks until thick and lemon-colored.

  3. Add salt, pepper, and milk to the yolks and mix well.

  4. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a frying pan and butter the sides and bottom.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and cook slowly.

  3. When the omelet is puffed up, insert a knife; if it comes out clean, the omelet is done.

  4. Place the omelet in the oven to dry off, then fold it and turn it onto a platter.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whites trap air when beaten and yolks set into the structure, giving the omelet its body and rise.
Milk
Adds moisture to the egg mixture, producing a softer, more tender texture when cooked.
Butter
Greases the pan so the omelet releases cleanly and adds richness to the surface.

The step that matters

Cook slowly over gentle heat. Egg proteins set at moderate temperatures; high heat toughens and browns the bottom before the top sets, leaving the omelet rubbery and dry.

“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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