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Jam Omelet

A fried egg dish with jam spread inside.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and apricot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,458 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Jam Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelet

  1. Make the omelet as per the basic recipe, but leave it flat in the pan instead of folding it.

  2. When firm and browned on one side, carefully turn it onto a hot dish.

Fill and serve

  1. Spread the jam in the center and fold the omelet over each side.

  2. Sprinkle sifted sugar on top and serve immediately.

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 + apricottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,458 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + apricottop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,712 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 to form the structure of the omelet as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the omelet brown in the pan.
Jam
Adds sweetness and fruity moisture in the filling.

The step that matters

Turning the omelet onto the dish. The omelet must be firm and browned on one side before turning, or it will tear or break. Carefully lifting it keeps it intact so the jam filling stays inside when folded.

Swap the apricot

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, 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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