Skip to main content
Breakfast

Savoury Omelet

A cooked egg mixture with flour, milk, parsley, onion, salt, pepper, and optional ham or tongue.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By T. J. Edmonds Ltd. · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 16 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 ↓

Savoury Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Beat eggs, mix flour smooth with a little of the milk, then add remainder; stir into the eggs, add parsley, onion, pepper and salt.

Cook

  1. Put a small piece of butter or dripping in frying-pan, pour in the mixture, and cook gradually.

  2. When brown underneath, cut in pieces, and turn.

  3. Add about 2 tablespoonfuls of grated ham or tongue to the egg mixture before cooking, omitting parsley.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1090Calories
55 gProtein
40 gFat
124 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By T. J. Edmonds Ltd.. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.

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

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

  2. Parsley + cinnamontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together603 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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
Set into the structure of the omelet as they cook, holding it together.
Flour
Thickens the milk and egg mixture, giving the omelet body and a softer texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and makes the mixture tender and loose as it cooks.
Butter
Greases the pan and adds richness and browning on the underside.

The step that matters

Cook gradually over gentle heat. Eggs turn tough and rubbery when heated too fast. Gentle heat lets the mixture set evenly while the underside browns without scorching.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Clovefits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk, ham, butter, egg, sugar, cinnamon. 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.

You might also like

Rice GruelRice Gruel28 recipesPeptoned Milk GruelPeptoned Milk Gruel9 recipes