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Sweet Omelet

A sweet omelet made with eggs, sugar, jam, and flavoring, cooked in clarified butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,308 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grease a small frying or omelet pan with clarified butter and let it set.

Make the batter

  1. Combine the yolks of the eggs, sugar, and flavoring in a medium bowl, then mix until creamy and pale.

  2. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form.

  3. Fold the beaten egg whites into the yolk mixture using an iron spoon.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook the mixture in the prepared pan until set, then 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.

Explore the science

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. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whites trap air for lightness while yolks add richness and set the omelette.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the yolks whip to a creamy, pale texture.
Raspberry or strawberry jam
Adds fruity sweetness and moisture to the sweet omelette.

The step that matters

Folding the beaten egg whites into the yolk mixture. Stiff whites hold air that gives the omelette its lift. Stirring them in vigorously deflates the foam and produces a dense, flat result, so fold gently with a light sweeping motion.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

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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