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Cheese Omelet

A quick cheese omelette made with eggs, milk, butter, bread crumbs, and grated cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the egg whites and yolks separately.

  2. Add the milk to the beaten eggs.

  3. Melt the butter in an omelet pan.

  4. Stir in the bread crumbs and pour the mixture into the pan.

  5. When ready to fold, add the grated cheese.

  6. Let it heat for a moment and serve on a very hot platter.

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the main structure, which sets as the omelette cooks, and body from the whites and yolks.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the beaten eggs, keeping the omelette tender.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and help give the omelette a lighter, more tender body.
Grated cheese
Adds richness and flavour, and melts into the eggs when heated.

The step that matters

Add the cheese at the right moment before folding. Cheese added too early can overheat and turn greasy or rubbery, while adding it late lets it soften and melt just enough without toughening the eggs.

“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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