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Eggs and Omelets

A simple omelet made with eggs, butter, coarse sea salt, served with half-glaze.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Eggs and Omelets

Ingredients

Directions

Make the omelet

  1. Heat butter in a pan over medium heat until bubbling.

  2. Whisk eggs with a pinch of coarse sea salt in a bowl.

  3. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and stir gently with a fork, especially around the edges.

  4. Shake the pan to prevent the omelet from sticking.

  5. When the omelet is set like a soft custard, fold the edge nearest the handle over the other half.

  6. Tip the pan slightly to allow the omelet to brown.

  7. Quickly turn the omelet out onto a dish by raising the handle and flipping it sharply.

Serve

  1. Serve with ½ cup of half-glaze.

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. Egg + buttertop 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

Eggs
Set into a soft custard structure that forms the body of the omelet.
Butter
Coats the pan to prevent sticking and adds richness and flavor.

The step that matters

Shaking the pan and stirring gently while the eggs set. Keeping the egg moving prevents it from sticking and forms small, tender curds. Letting it set too long makes the omelet tough and dry, and it can then tear when folded or turned out.

“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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