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Plain Omelet

A simple omelet made with eggs, milk, and butter, cooked in a hot pan and rolled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Plain Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl, add the milk, and whisk thoroughly.

  2. Heat the butter in a chafing dish until very hot.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the hot butter and let it cook until thick.

  2. Use a thin-bladed knife to loosen the omelet from the bottom without stirring.

  3. When done, carefully roll the edges over until fully rolled up.

  4. Serve on a hot plate.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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 firm structure as they cook, forming the body of the omelet.
Milk
Adds moisture, producing a softer, more tender texture in the cooked eggs.
Butter
Fat that keeps the omelet from sticking and adds richness to the surface.

The step that matters

Pour the egg mixture into the hot butter and let it cook until thick.. If the butter is not hot enough, the eggs absorb fat and cook unevenly, becoming greasy and tough. Once the pan is hot, the proteins set quickly and stay tender.

“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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