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Mango Omelet

A savory omelet made with mango, butter, eggs, milk, cracker crumbs, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 471 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Mango Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the mangoes

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the mango squares and fry until soft.

Make and cook the omelette

  1. In a bowl, beat together the eggs, sweet milk, cracker crumbs, salt, and pepper.

  2. Pour the egg mixture over the mangoes in the skillet.

  3. Cook until the eggs are set and lightly browned.

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. Mango + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together471 recipes

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Mango + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Mango + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together283 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Mangoes
Soften in butter and add sweetness and fruity aroma to the omelette.
Eggs
Set when heated to form the body of the omelette.
Sweet milk
Adds moisture and softness to the set egg mixture.
Cracker crumbs
Absorb liquid and help give the omelette a slightly firmer body.

The step that matters

Cook until the eggs are set and lightly browned. Eggs turn from liquid to firm as proteins coagulate with heat. Cooking too high or too long makes them tough and rubbery, while stopping too early leaves a runny centre.

Swap the mango

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Mangothe original
  4. Coconutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg, milk, pepper. 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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