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To Make a Plain Sweet Omelet

A sweet omelet made with eggs, butter, and sugar, cooked until set and browned.

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 ↓

To Make a Plain Sweet Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the egg mixture

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl, omitting the whites of 3 eggs.

  2. Whisk the eggs well, adding the sugar and 2 oz. of butter cut into small pieces. Stir all the ingredients together until well combined.

Cook the omelet

  1. Heat the remaining butter in a small frying pan until it bubbles.

  2. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir until it begins to set.

  3. Turn the edges of the omelet over to shape it into an oval.

  4. Finish cooking the omelet until fully set.

  5. To brown the top, hold the pan before the fire or use a salamander.

Serve

  1. Carefully turn the omelet onto a very hot dish, sprinkle with sifted sugar, 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. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into a soft structure as they cook, forming the body of the omelet.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and fries the surface of the omelet in the pan.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown when heated.

The step that matters

Finish cooking the omelet until fully set. Eggs set as their proteins coagulate with heat. Stopping too early leaves a runny centre, while overcooking makes the omelet tough and dry, so timing the set matters.

“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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